THE OUTRAGE AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5298, 12 February 1878, Page 2

THE OUTRAGE AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

[From our special correspondent.]

- .'V The following rotererioe -to a Press-Agency telegram making little qf ,' the attempt on the arch at New, Plymouth, . appears, ip to-night’a Post-i-—' “Sir,—' With reference to the attempt' made by Major Atkinson’s oonnectionsAo pnU/ down the aroh of welcome to Sir Grey at N«w Plymouth, I notice that the Press Agency in the perfonmneepf endfavourg to remove the stigma femu its proteges. J! rinnounce’m^ir^ttTkqJ^^ii^^r^^The attempt to pull down the triumphilfftreli was the midnight freal; of a few, lqmkinß,,and it is but ript 1 ’ljq’ the Major and his fneridi. werri concerned in it is absolutely untrue.” : Sir. I 'hate riot thri least hesitation in st»tmg[ hjy-.tieiief that that message never came froin the piep ofithe New Plymouth Press 1 Agent; whom->l} Imow to be fully acquainted with the whole circumstance, and whose opinion- of the? transaction ■!, also happen to know,: blit that it was either sent by some one acting in behalf of those political- rowdies at New Plymouth, or was concocted" in Captavn- Holt’#. own office at . Wellington in the;; spirit yjH hostility which that gentleriian has liabitually shown to. Sir 0% Grey. I may state, that when the perpetrators of the outrage awoke igi tho conscientiousness of the stupidity of their procedure and became aware of. tlie,strong feeling evoked among the people at Taranaki, having somehow heard that the incident had been telegraphed over the Colony, about eight waited on me and used every effort to induce: me, to suppress their names. Tl;ia J distinctly, tofusod, as I had become acquainted with the“ whok circumstances fromthetipsofaneyer witness, and had in the presence of Seigeant, Duffin copied the account, vrith rfio .names df' the offenders, from the police report book, a copy of which you have already, published. Possibly ! may be incorirtet to my ideas AV' to'' wliat is meant by the term ‘‘-[Lamkih ’’ ’ris un- : extend Holt, but referring to the I would ad, is'tle hoi/* niejuber Richmond Hursthouse, i a- “ larrikin ?” he itw»B tfiste Sergeant : wh9 il .wftß astride of the arch affixing a rope proceedings, were • arrested: by> thtoJpollco. ft his brother, Wilson Hursthouse, Esq, Engineor-in-Chief of the Taranaki railways, also a “larrikin?” Is [llooimus Atkinson, Esq, own ’ btotlier; to the late ; !mriiiej' a ’ larrikin ?” Are tho Humphries Bros, wellfciiawn .atorokoopors. of. New -Plymouth, MrMcDonogh, of the . Baltic, AMr "WiUiaiMson, chemist, and the piber epeeifled’ m 1 top police, report—eaeli of whom tooki an akriiyc , tjie affray, all “ larrikLaa?’’ ! I Captain Holt to be cautious in anplyinfi'auob an; epithet to suqh hen,. gpritlemeft; not how they may resent it., I mey be niittod to add to my former aoeoarit tliat. the,: object 1 wriuld havb bo’eri accomjlliiKqd 1 but’j fqr a fault in the ...arnmgemqnte,' •One section of . Major Atkinsqu’s , friepda[ lad arranged a littla, bye-play wiw ‘a’ sigftS. gun, intending ! to sell tho salute as, if announcing , this, qmya,l. ~o£ Ministers. Accordingly At midnight K, was fired, and was unfortunoSely tiiiatakelSby the others us indicating t^p 1 ' aetdal arrirm when, thinking tliat no time was to be lost, they precipitated: their aaranmwuwnte their plans were matured; I should not have gone out of the way to. refer, to, tips uTaftef: ut os Captain Holt has impugned miy vyraoitv I accept too challenge,, and ff at New Plymouth are not awed.' et riot afraid of offending a Member of mont, by having him. prosecnteA'la^fevwl. question ririll be set at rest iW"toe f i^ij^sft on •Major and his friends were t~ri a: ■dhtrim.'*-*did

tludfterm. The I may _BC««WMmr!"**Relative.” Atkinson has brother since relatives at “*» M vlllSSEShiAa br idEmtem of mterto which has * Iviy* .-VnwHKT«Fi>mv (families of it would bo diffleult perhaps t f, ** or may not be jWjoj* »^&«'^Mf|P| K^^^^ > M^ i^operat | on i , ■ I maintain tto#«titiouj-despite the “ absolute untruths’’ Apologsingfor .yoy.valiishto«|ia«t,. I am, Ac., „