NO TOWN. AND BELL HILL TRACK

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5297, 18 September 1885, Page 4

NO TOWN. AND BELL HILL TRACK

' » : /p.^-i t*° THE EDITOR.] _. . ; | \ Sib,— ln referring ;to this track inTthe first instance I have had no other object in view than to put your readers in possession of the true facts of the case, because the representations made by your learned correspondent "Magna est^iiefitas'^et prevalebit" are purely, the offsprings of his own imagination and never entered the brain of any one else. He is lamentably ignorant of the country interviewing the head of No Town Creek arid Bell Hill when he stated that *• on this route " there exists no engineering difficulty. Well I should tide to know who told him that, for he cant speak of it from experience, but I can tell him that as soon aa he crosses the Deep Creek above jthe Gorge he has to face a quagmire fully four, miles wide, and it would take all the metal at Bell Hill before a solid foundation fora road could be made. In case that he will ask where I got my information from, I need only state that I .worked in Jone's Creek 17 years ago, the first diggings opened in the vicinity of ''Bell 'Hill,' and moreover myself and mates carried our provisions on our back from No Towrij the return journey always occupying two days owing to the swampy nature of the ground. In his last effusion he took advantage of the information contained in my previous letter, and tried to correct himself with regard to the distance from No Town to the upper end of the Gorge, instead of adhering to what he said in his second letter which appeared in your issue of August the 20th ult.— (L gave the date so that your reades may see for themselves), that the Bell Hill track should have crossed Deep Creek above the Gorge, three miles from No Town. He now states, that three miles from No Town, or from Bell's Gully, this track should have j gone up the No Town Creek Valley. This is entirely a different version, but it ;will be seen 1 that three miles from No Town, or from Bell's Gully makes . six miles from No Town to the George, which proves the veracity of what Ihave stated in my last letter, that the distance is exactly twice as long as he represents it, and 1 again assert it was never contemplated that the track should go any other tnan the present route to Deep Creek, and from thence to the Christchurch road via BA\ Hill. Now the fact of it is this, ," Magna est Veritas et Prevalebit," does not care an iota if there never was a track to Bell Hill ; all that he has said on the subject is simply a cloak to enable him to wreak his vengeance under cover of an assumed name on a few individuals who stands between him and the goal of his ambition, namely — a seat in the Grey County Council, but who he dare not confront openly. If he was the model of perfection he pretends to be, h* would have told you honestly that the letters he has sent you are the joint production of a combination, of which he is the wood and water joe. He did not even write them, nor is able to d > so, but his vanity, and he is the happy possessor of no small modicum of the same, is gratified at the idea as he thinks that he is regarded as a man of literary ability. It strikes me most forcibly that he must be a victum to mutual aberration or some such delusion, when he allowed himself to please his confederates to become an object of ridicule 10 every one who is in the least conversant with the present system of education. I refer to his attack on our esteemed school teacher Mr Scott, for placing Mr Molloy's childien on the school roll. A man that aspires to be a representative of the people, ought to know that the teacher is duty bound to put the name of every child of school age that enters as a pupil on the roll, but here is where the shoe pinches. Mr Scott is boarding at Mr Cliffords. Need I say any more but to return to Molloy's children, " Magna' s" states that they could not travel 16 miles a day, eight miles each way, and yet he would send them to Red Jacke, four miles further. JKTow Mr Molloy never intended his children to travel to No Town. He has plenty of horses and if the track wab made passable they could ride easily each way in an hour and a half, but .such is his anxiety for giving them the benefit of education, he is boarding one of the boys at No Town and he has been attending the school regular the last two months. At the present time he is building a place above the township where when finished he intends to remove the rest of his children, so that they also may attend the school regularly. With regnrd to the remarks of your learned correspondent about myself. They are a mirror that reflect his true character, and may be read ut a distance better than I can describe it. If it was at all necessary I could get 19 out of every 20 persons in the district to prove that ttey are utterly false. I never was a party to a clique, neither has any one here, or elsewhere, ever tried to influence me as to what I should report to the Argus ; no, not even my chief, for it would be to no purpose. Still lam not t>o proud to accept a good billet at his hands.— l am, &c, The No Town Correspondent. September 15th 1885.