A DENIAL FROM THE HASTINGS KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

Hastings Standard, Issue 45, 18 June 1896, Page 3

A DENIAL FROM THE HASTINGS KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

; T< > TIIE El)fTi)};.; Sin, —At tli«- last meeting of the local Knights of Labor f w:h instructed by the a.-.-embly to ■write to 11 u■ papers anil deny the truthfulness of the resolution- said to have been passed at a former mei ting, as published in the Ni-\v Zealand Times of t!i«* 25) th ultimo, under tin* heading of '• Now let Sergeant- Mitchell Apologise,'" as follows: —'• That the atiaHc made I>v Sergeant Mitchell 011 the iI a stints correspoiideiit cf the N<w Zealand Times ws entirely unwarranted and unsupported by facts. and was all the more contemptible through having be.n made in the absence of tin■ correspondent." And in the Napier print of £Sth ultimo, per Press Association, as follows :—" That this assembly is of opinion that the attack by the police on the eoiTOi-pondent of the New Zealand Times for writing a paragraph relating to vehicles without lights was unwarranted."' I am instructed to inform you that the resolution that was really passed, entered in my minute book and since confirmed at our last meeting, is :—" That the attention of the police be drawn to the breach of bye-laws by the public driving without lights after sunset." The assembly considered it most necessary in the interests of their order that every publicity should be given this denial, so that the readers of the Times and News of the dates given should not he allowed to conclude that our assembly recognises the private grievance of any of its members, or that it knowingly places its influence at the disposal of any of its members whose efforts may be prompted by personal feeling or suite. —I am, Sec., C'Hlll 111 ;hks, Recording Secretary Morning St; 1 V 1 1 ly. Hastings, -Tune 10th, IH9G.