Mr Thatcher’s Latest Exploit.

Cromwell Argus, 18 May 1870, Page 7

Mr Thatcher’s Latest Exploit.

( Oamaru Times.) sj The editor of this paper received last evening, at about half-past six o’clock, the letter given below. It will be observed that Mr Thatcher did not pen this epistle until he was safe out of Oamaru. Before the receipt of the letter referred, we had written, our local .anent Mr Thatcher’s entertainment, which appears in another column, and we scorn to abate one jot of the truth for any threat of personal violence he may clioose to make. With regaid to the insinuations about the editor “ when in business in Christchurch,” he defies Mr Thatcher or Mr Anybody else, to say truthfully that he ever behaved dishonestly in his life. If the Press is to be coerced by such threats as these, the sooner pistols and knuckle-dusters become part of the furniture of an editor’s office the better. At any rate, the editor is not “ such as to be deterred from writing what' he pleases by any such threats as these. Finally, for Mr Thatcher’s information, wo have no objection to inform him that the editor did not write the letter at which ho appears to have taken umbrage, nor did ho go round the town showing it, as alleged. “Oamaru, Thursday, 6th May, IS7O. “ Sir, —This is to inform you that if you allude to mo in your paper again in any uncomplimentary way, I will pull your nose in the most public place I can find you in in Oamaru, and will return from Timaru on purpose to do it ; and I know I can, for none but a mean cur would have gone round the town showing the letter you wrote. Had I said all I could of you, I could have alluded'to^ur.kltinfti’vy.’vtS , plo of Christchurch when you wore a draper. Whatever appears in your paper I will hold you responsible for. I care very little for anything you can say, as 1 am too well known in all parts of New Zealand to be. injured ; hut I want you to give me one more, chance, so that if you pull me to Court you will have no excuse to' say you were not warned.—l am, & c., “Charles E. Thatcher,” The following is the local referred fo above : —“ Mr Thatcher gave Jus farewell performance on Tuesday evening, in the Masonic Hall. During the day, ho made the mistake of ringing about the town the name of a gentleman well-known in Oamaru as the proposed subject of a local song, and was rewarded with a very thin house. Messrs Small and Daniels were loudly applauded in all their songs, and Mr Thatcher as loudly hissed ; and when the Inimitable appeared to sing the last song of tho evening, he was hooted, and hissed, and pelted with bad eggs and rotten aAdus.”