DR. KEY WORTH AND MISS HOUSTON.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1887, Page 2

DR. KEY WORTH AND MISS HOUSTON.

Dr. Keywokth writes as follows to the Nelson "Mail":—My attention has been called to a paragraph to tho effect that

• Margaret Houston is going to reside with one of tho Nelson doctors.' As lam credibly assured that my name is currently associated with the .statement, I beg to be allowed to give it an absolute and unqualified contradiction so far as relates to myself. No one who has any personal acquaintance with me would bo likely to credit so preposterous and absurd an announcement ; but there are many other.-; to whom lam less known whom it may bo desirable to correct. Will you permit me then to say that my knowledge of Margaret Houston's family,which is thoroughly respectable, is of many years' .standing, and I have known hor from her birth, throughout her business life, and during her residence in Wellington up to tho time of her unfortunate removal to Timaru. Her character and behaviour has licjn blameless. Common humanity, therefore, as well'as my long friendship with her parents, impelled mo to devote time and money and to encounter disagreeable publicity to assist her when lying under the accusation of a horrible crime, of which I then and still believe her to be innocent ; but my association with hor terminated with the hour of her acquital. Whilst, therefore, I have done what I could on her behalf, I by no means endorse her subsequent conduct. She is the last person wl on I should be likely to take into my hou.-e, and 1 have, indeed, strongly advised her friends to recall her to England."