A QUESTION OF FACT.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17022, 20 December 1920, Page 6

A QUESTION OF FACT.

I 4 TO THE EDITOR OF ;i TIIE TKESS." •: Sir,—l am collecting New Zealand curiosities, so I will take your leading . article homo with me. To get the full i humour of it one has to remember the , sequence of events. In a leading article} you remarked that Professor Hyslop IS j Professor cf Logic. I answered with mild irony that he certainly is not, as: he has been dead either ''some time j , or "some years"—which of tho two is, ( perfectly immaterial, since I presume! you tfill agree that in either case he I bad ceased to be a Professor of Colom-j bin. To this you were rash enough to t i reply with a challenging article w ''th j large headlines, declaring that I h nt J j blundered, and that this was typical of the inaccuracy of Spiritualists 1 wrote a gentle remonstrance to show , that I bad not blundered, and that my assertion was essentially true, since th" | 1 man was dead. This you now tacitly admit, but instead of expressing regret ;• vou ask for an apology from me. 11 have engaged in much newspaper con-1 1 troversv, but I can truly say that I, can recall no su?h instance of effrontery ; as this.—Yours, etc., ARTHUR COXAN DO\LE. Christchurch, December 18th. [Tho word "is," which is printed in capitals, was underlined by our correspondent; "U'o refer to his letter in our editorial columns. —_ : Ed. "The Press."]