Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

MATHIAS WILLING AND MEETINGS.

[to the editor. I Sir, — I notice that in the weekly paper of the 17th inst Mathias Willing has broken out in a fresh place. Before it ■was bridges ; now it is meetings. He seems to be in a fog concerning Mr Marshall's meeting at Totara Flat. As he Beems to require a little light on the subject I will give it to him gratis. In regard to the expression of opinion at that meeting, he can find that out quite easily by interviewing Messrs Donald, Erskine, Savage, M'Kinly, M'Kee, and Methven, all influential and highly respected residents of the district. From them he will, I am sure, receive what he appears to stand in need of. Mathias Willing can rest assured that the Totara Flat meeting was a genuine one and thoroughly public, not like the bogus hole-and-corner one at the Waipuna that Mathias Willing reported in a letter of his that appeared a few weeks past in your paper. The letter signed "Fair Play with Bridges," a reply to it, has not been answered by Mathias Willing up to date. He should bridge over that letter before he commences afresh with meetings. Mathias Willing writes about a man serving two masters. He must be in a very benighted condition if he does not know that a contributor to the public press serves--a number of masters by contributions to newspapers, but he should be careful fiot to supply accounts of bogus hole-and-corner meetings and clap-trap logic. Mathias Willing almost asserts that Mr Marshall's meeting was for some ulterior object. Such an assertion is thoroughly in keeping with the way he is favoring the readers of the Argus with. The concluding portion of his letter reads very nicely, but whether or not it is good enough for the ratepayers' money, I will leave to them to judge. — I am, &c, Facts, not Fancies. July 18.

Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA18850723.2.20

Bibliographic details

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5250, 23 July 1885, Page 4

Word Count
319

MATHIAS WILLING AND MEETINGS. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5250, 23 July 1885, Page 4

MATHIAS WILLING AND MEETINGS. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5250, 23 July 1885, Page 4

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert