"I AM NOT THE MAN FOR A" THAT."

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 8009, 23 March 1888, Page 3

" I AM NOT THE MAN FOR A" THAT."

Silt, — As I have been falsely accused of being " Franciscan," who has lately been ink-slinging at the. rate of a gallon a minute in tlie columns of your paper, I hope I shall be pardoned if I claim a little coiner in the same in order to tell the whole of Napier that I am not the guilty man, as my meagre talents were never intended lo shine in fulminating wholesale and groundless charges in anonymous letters. If 1 wanted any information from the Key. Father Grogan in connection with the bazaar or anything else it is to himself or to the committee who have charge of it I should go, and not seek such information through the medium of a newspaper. And if I did happen to adopt the latter course I should assume the position of a man and sign my name to my letter and not tire abuse at in\ priest from behind the cowl of a monk. With regard to the manner ot conducting the late cnrresp->n !enee, 1 am not going to do a- m> many others have done, that is to dictate to those I have so many reasons to respect Henides, this is not the object of my letti-r. I have simply written to exculpate myself from tl'u false charge. I wouM not feel the accusation so keenly were it not that I" am a Chinaman, and as such I think I have reason to expect belter treatment from a people so famed for their courtesy as the English. — I am, &c. , Bryan M'Guuk.