CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8187, 1 June 1892, Page 3

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

•SO TKK EDITOa O» TH2 PB.ES3.

Sib, —Most of your readers axe I suppose too well acquainted with the petty feud which has grown up in this grand institution, aud its origin so far as Mr Forbes is concerned. And I fancy most of your readers have arrived at a conclusion which, although not expressed, is tolerably universal, that it is not Mr Forbes who should be called upon to resign. Unless a very radical reform in the conduct of this institution, and, indeed, in the selection of the Board of Governors generally, is speedily made, I fear that this grand vestige of Provincial institutions will be taken from Canterbury and handed over to the raereies of a Central Government. Surely WelHogton could not treat a gentleman with more scant courtesy than has been vouchsafed to Mr Forbes. It would have' been more dignified if Mr Malefc had from the first day of this controversy kept aloof from the meetings of the Board of Governors. He, like Mr Forbes, should have been called upon to make his statement and then have retired. From the first, it has appeared to mc to be * question of veracity, and one which the Board ought to have interpreted without the interference of one of " the parties to the suit." What a coildish aSair we have now

blazoned forth in ow oauera U'v •* few catalogues or bo^J^i JJiS *,' * wasfouadVnting J£ ShfaßSS dSf missal of one of its professors. I the Regiatrar or th P c directed to place hinadfS the officer m question, fa. order to cW up the myefcery. Mr Masoa would appUed himeelf to the work a. » geaUeman should, and would have received la answer which been altogether satisfactory.. Perbape a diligent .search may now elicit the fact of a copy or two of tho Press or LyUeUon Times, during the nast two years having been used to kindle a fire and this may give rise to a meeting of fourteen gentlemen, to be acquainting them with the enormity of the offence. I wooM remind you that this pet'ifogginc system is of modern creation. It was never known in the days of yon Haast and the days of the Governors of 1873.—Yours, &c. Observer,