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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 381, 23 November 1889, Page 3

A Napier resident has handed the News a letter he has received from a friend of his, who was one of those who joined the expedition to the Eermadecs, The letter is dated Denholm Bay, 16lh October, and reads as follows I—ll Dear ,— We left Auckland on Friday, 4th instant, and arrived here on Friday, the 11th instant, after a fair passage. Everyone is disappointed, and the station hands find there la very little * tucker ’ for them. Mr — seems to have misled us shamefully, The landing is very bad and dangerous, I think the island itself will be fit for a few men as settlers to make a living on, but only just; bnt as I have not been About much I will not run it down, One of the station hands, Mr Stephen Hicks, has decided to go back this trip, and as he has had a good spell on shore, I would recommend any one who thinks of eoming out here to see him. He is a son of old Mr Hicks, the verger at St. John’s. My advice to anyone is,'don't gome out as a station band unless they nee plenty of provisions are being sent out. As for the settlers, I think they will be all right, but no fortunes are to be made, and they must bring plenty of stores, and in very small parcels, on account of the bad landing, Mr Bell, the old settler who hae been for ten years on the island, is now in Auckland, and will give information to any one, but he runs it down, and I think, a little too much. There 11 • www w ’oananM, guavas, and Citrons, and a few oranges growing wild, and ions of Cape gooseberries, plenty of fish* ynld goats, and pigs. 1 he hills look very rough and broken* not fit for much. None of us have sMi the other side of the folwd *i y«t a*

The Napier Telegraph, in referring to th exposures of the converted athlete business, eays that nothing pays better than humbug. We believe the Telegraph pays, although it pretends to be such a high toned Tory,

They have a queer way of doing things in Auckland. One man meets another in a public place, and lets him have a broadside of abuse, and then apologises through the newspapers. One man went a little beyond the ordinary way of doing things, and this is hie apologyTo G. Mcßride,—l acknowledge having embezzled sums of money from you on at least 20 occasions, and also having deliberately falsified your books for the purpose of hiding my defalcations, I also acknowledge having lied to my friends and your clients in speaking of the matter, thereby attempting to extenuate my criminality and defame you; all of which I sincerely regret, and thank you very much for not pressing for a severe sentence.