DR. EVANS AND THE CHRONICLE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 14, 22 July 1843, Page 2

DR. EVANS AND THE CHRONICLE.

At the request of Dr. Evans we publisl the following letter, which is addressed to our contemporary of the Chronicle. In doing so wo cannot help expressing our repro bation of the conduct of the learned Editci of the Chronicle in thus attempting so insj diously to injure a man in the eyes of hi fellow settlers and chief supporters, the Ne\ Zealand Company. That Dr. Evans imgli express a favourable opinion of Auckland we can easily believe, for we defy him 01. any other person, after enjoying the splen did prospect from Mount Eden, not to fee | that the lot of the settlers here has falk unto them in a goodly land. This Dr. Evam must have felt in spite of hia attachment fw ! and interest in Port Nicholson. But thatb ' would so far lose sight of his own interests a ( to abuse Port Nicholson and the New Zea land Company, we would not believe, event the Leader of the New Zealand Bar wereti assert it. We understand that Dr. Evami to commence an action for damages agains the real Editor and Proprietor of the Go vermnent Organ, We have no doubt In will succeed. It is high time that the cot duct of some of the members of this Govern ment and their attempts at making then selves the perverted' vehicle of expressinj public opinion through the Press, should b | exposed. The Port Nicholson People vil | donbtless still remember how Mr, Swainson i the Attorney General, procured the dismU I sal of Mr. Eairp from the Legislative Couk j cil because he was supposed to have writtet !in an Auckland Newspaper. May not thei , and Dr. Evans at least ask why a member of ! the Legislative and Executive Council' should have been allowed to be the Edito and part Proprietor of an Auckland News paper, and why nearly all tbe Members <* this Government have combined to suppress Public opinion by purchasing the material of the only Free Press in the Colony. at thi time, and starting with the same a new* paper of their own ? We doubt not 1> Evans will bring several hidden things t light before he is done with this affair. To the Editor of the "Auckland ±- Chronicle." Sir,— l have barely sufficient time, befo« going on board the brig, which sails thi afternoon for Port Nicholson, to express n»< astonishment that any one could be foum so base or malignant as to impose upon yoi the paragraph in your paper of this morninl relating to me. "Whoever has made tb statement to you, has been guilty of a A liberate misrepresentation ; with a view, » doubt, of damaging me in the. estimation < my fellow settlers at Wellington. But can afford to treat such men with conteaij and defiance. I have never said, " that « settlers at Port Nicholson were on the y<® of expressing their disgust at having befj entrapped into the purchase o£ lands " whit' had not been alienate* by the natives.

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I have uniformly said, " that the settlers ere disgusted at the delay in settling the ,nd claims, and that they wouia have >u"-ht their remedy against the Company, at' that they considered the government lore to blame than the Company, as having reated the difficulty by means of its interirence with the natives." I have never bubted of the ultimate prosperity of the ktlement at Port Nicholson ; and I have aiid, " that if I left it, one object would be t* drag our local government to the bar <jt public opinion in the mother country. f'lf 'I have the honor to be, Sir, *k Your obedient servant, .'f| ' Gkorgb Sam. Evaxs. flckland, July 15, 1843. — Sp. S. I crave permission, at the same ,tHne, to eater my solemn protest, on behalf i myself and my fellow-settlers, against Dse papers in the last Government Gazette, lative to the massacre at Wairau, which VO inspired me with horror at the infatuon of tho authors. Their tendency, I contentiously believe to be, to bring on a war extermination between the Europeans d the Natives.