A CONTRADICTION.

Hastings Standard, Issue 181, 26 November 1896, Page 2

A CONTRADICTION.

[To the Editor.] Sir,—Referring to the report of Mr A. L.I). Feasor's meetingstClive,published in last night's Daily Telegraph, I beg through your valuable columns to contradict two barefaced and unmitigated falsehoods contained therein. V In the first place the meeting was exclusively a local one, densely packed and enthusiastically favorable to Mr Fraser. The Hastings residents present in the. Hall were the following, and not by any means all supporters of Mi- Fraser, namely—J. Connolly, M. Sullivan, T. llrown, j. Taiaroa. A. 13. Green, A. P. Shea !! J. Davy and T. A. Hayes. In the second place, so far from Mi Fraser having been cornered by the foolishly inspired question relating to the reduction of railway servants wageg, tinquestioner was himself covered with :i pitiful confusion when the candid'.',.; pointed out to him that the Hansard extract from which lie quoted referred merely to the question as to whether certain crossing-keepers and others should receive a wage of 25s per week with a house or ilOs without a house. The mere suppression of the fact that Mr Fraser's meeting .was the greatest political success ever witnessed in Olive is not to be wondered at, seeing that the Telegraph contains the report. The scurrilous and untruthful tactics of that daily are fast forging the strongest weapons against Captain Russell, who, if I mistake not, will before the numbers are up call upon the Gods to save him from his own friends.—l am, &e., T. A. Hayes.