THE HON. MR MACANDREW IN REPLY TO MR TEWSLEY.

Evening Star, Issue 5042, 2 May 1879, Page 4

THE HON. MR MACANDREW IN REPLY TO MR TEWSLEY.

The;following letter has been forwarded to the Chairman of the Harbor Board : . "Wellington, April 29. 1879. I nave Been- in the ' Daily Times' your reply to my letter of 16th April. You have not probably expected me ito continue a correspondence in which the imputation of improper motives and "occult" influences forms the staple of your letter, wherein you say " occult but strongly-Mt influences at york are by their very nature intangible ; yet of their existence no one who has reasoning powers has, the slightest doubt. The cleverness consists in doing and yet giving the aggrieved person no handlejto take hWd of; and so I felt jt,..to be in,the present case." I shall merely ' observe' that on this principle" of

reasoning the character of no public man is safe from the malignity of persons who may feel a pleasure or an interest in traducing it. By the peiversion of the simplest words exacts of & man's life, and then, in your own language, compiling the "aggrrgufco of his doings," you could have no difficulty in bbcVoiling even the greatest public ohamcter. tarn so far satisfied with your iti;]v, &nC fc-ust' you will pardon me for declining to'follow you into allvged facta, each of which v o u S av "i«:is given you no handle to explain "•< inlrti'igiVinfluences "of which I,- at least, am una.nsoiom. I shall therefore have the mutter i>; -the hands of that public, which is notberett of " reason* d" powers," believing it will be the be*t ■judge o? the aggregate" of my doings., unci feeling assuredrthat my actiom, before tribunal, will meet with a very different reception fiom that which you and your coadjutor in the Qtago Harbor Board have•Byntematiiwiiy chosen to place upon them.—l am, etc., (.Signed) J. MACA.Nj,'i;i.\r.