W. KIRBY TO MR. DARGAVILLE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1609, 10 April 1875, Page 2

W. KIRBY TO MR. DARGAVILLE.

[AD VERTIS EMENT.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —Having at once closed all further correspondence 1 request insertion to the following, whether at my expense or otherwise, namely, that on the morning of the nomination for the election of a member for the Franklin district, Mr. Sheehan, jun., called to my house requesting ma to propose Mr. Dargaville, at the same time producing his letter to that effect Having proposed him, I am now told publicly that my statement was a fabrication, or in plainer language, a lie. Had Mr. Sheehan been here, I should have called upon him to state in writing that what I said in my letter is strictly correct, for a liar is always worse than a rogue. In the hall at Otahuhu, where there could not be less than a 100 electors, there was but one hand raised up in his favour. There were three gentlemen then proposed of well-known local standing, and Mr Dargaville has lately consulted his own interests by retiring. If he wanted to lose an election he would ask me to propose him. But I should consider myself far the lowest of the low, were I not his equal, either in social standing, birth, or education, In everything that constitutes the principlej and actions of a man I claim to be his equal. There is a figure of speech named Onymorou, derived from Onus a wise man, and Moros a fool, and if he were not a fool, in public print he should not call me a liar, knowing well I did not go. to Otahuhu to propose him without having his written sanction to do so.—l am, &c, William Kikby. P.S After Mr Dargaville coining back, had we no conversation about the Franklin election in Shortland- street^