WRECK OF THE CLYDE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7413, 2 December 1884, Page 6

WRECK OF THE CLYDE.

TO Till IWTOK. Sin,—Half a column ol letters, numerously signed by Akaroa residents, vrill have clearly shown the unwarrantable nature of the charge made against Sergeant Brooks by ° Two (so-eallod) Hoaesboe Bay Farmers.” Mr M'Phail has pointed oat their gross mis-statements, but the injustice you bare done to the settlors in the neighbourhood by publishing an anonymous letter, boating a fictitious address, remains to be repaired. There are no farmers living in Horseshoe Hay j not a soul who has a right to send a letter m coming from that place. There are, however. plenty of settlers living within six or seven mites of the Bay, some of whom assisted, mod all of whom would gladly have done so if opportunity had offered. Are we all. one alter the other, to write denying tho authorship of that most inaccurate and unfeeung production ? You, Sir, know whether or not the writer is a resident amongst ns, but I can assure you, that if be is, bis opinions are his own. The general feeling in the immediate neighbourhood is agalmrt him. We know ourselves that the Sergeant did his dutyunder trying circumstances, and that the settlers did their best to help. Neither tin; Sergeant nor the Rcttlora asked for praise for what they had done. They certainly did not expect to receive unmerited censure from a correspondent who, writing anonymously, professes to lie one of themselves.—l am, Ac., F. A. ANSON. Pcraki, Nov. 29. [Tho real point of the letter in question, as far as we understand it, we have pointed out on a former occasion, viz., that better arrangements were not made for taking advantage of the energies of settler# and police, who all, it has been abundantly proved, did their best under trying circumstances.—Ed. L.T.]