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Evening Star, Issue 14319, 18 March 1910, Page 4

A circular bearing the signature of James Wilson has been A distributed among the Contemptible ratepayers of NorthTrick, cast Valley borough, the author of which, who is quite unknown to us, having the temerity to assert that the agitation for amalgamation with the City has been "engineered" by the Duncdin City Council solely for their own benefit, and to warn tho burgesses that they "cannot possibly benefit by it." And this veracious individual evolves this extraordinai-y suggestion out of his iuiier consciousness: IThoy (tho City, Council) wish to get

your borough as security for borrowing purposes, which at tho present timo would bo worth to them anything between £60,000 to £IOO,OOO.

His Worship tho Mayor of Dunediu has properly taken the earliest opportunity of exposing this atrocious slander. If thoro were on our Statute Hook a law similar to that 'which • tho Lord Chancellor (Lore-burn) introduced into tho Imperial Parliament, by which men of the Wilson typoj who invent " terminological inexactitudes"—we would not hesitate to apply the proper term if tho libel law of New Zealand wore not an anachronism and a veritable pitfall —iu order to gairi potty advantages at an election, can bo brought to book and punished for their misdeeds. Even the opponents of amalgamation, who have excellent reasons for the faith that is within theMi, and who will to-morrow work their hardest to retain the municipal entity of the Valley, must feel ashamed of the tactics practised on this occasion by James Wilson, for it is a bad cause that has to bo bolstered up by wilful perversions of known facts.