MEANEE RACE-COURSE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2995, 31 January 1881, Page 2

MEANEE RACE-COURSE.

[To the Editor of the Daily Tei/EGBaph.] Sib,—With that peculiar indifference displayed by your morning contemporary for everything stamped with truth and justice, it comes out to-day with a subleader crammed with ill-concealed bitterness and nasty toadyism, in order to have a kick at the eftorts of the people of Napier when trying to get the 92.acres of land at Meanee for a public park. The statement made by the Herald about four stewards of the Racing cluh waiting on Mr Rolleston is simply ignorance repeated, and is as unreliable and as unfounded as if it emanated from the renowned Tom Pepper, who was kicked from a very warm corner for manufacturing false and dastardly statements'.-* I suppose the Herald is wiathful because it bad no .knowledge of the deputation. Why should it, I would like to/ask ? Give information newspaper, every line of which bristles with callouslcpntempt for any agitation that may arise to do good to our borough I The Mayor and Councillors.were guided by common sense in not letting the Herald know of the deputation. Had- the Gorporation done so, that pliable journal would have used its dickering influence to destroy all efforts ot the burgesses in order that it might betaken in tow and and bound faster to the Hastings ring. The Herald states that the signatures to the petition that was presented months ago (not as the Herald states on Friday,) were obtained under false pretences. If the Herald sails under the canopy of special favor, and wishes to back its unfounded statements, I am open to do business. I will back myself to get within 24 hours the thousand signatures attached to the petition in question, and two thousand more with them to sitgmatise the bleached and paid—for attack of the Herald which was only calculated to poison the ear, if the ear of a partial Minister could be poisoned. The Herald says that we went over the ground, and that it is a ewamp. Why, Sir, it was only this morning that a Meanee gentleman was prepared to pay £50 per year for the reserve. At a sale of land a short while ago which was one of the most successful that was ever held in the district, the average per acre surroundingthisproperty was £16. How does that look for swamp ?—I am, &c, Meanee. January 31, 1891.