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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2146, 26 February 1897, Page 5

[Adv.]

W. C. COCHRAN'S EXPLANATION. (TO THE EDITOR L.W M ) Slß,—As my last letter to the Borough Council re the peremptory demand made by the Town Clerk, Mr F. VV. Geisow, was passed over in a very unceremonious manner —la fact, stiffled—by being merely received, I have to ask yon in justice to myself, to publish it in your paper. It will let the public know how little there is in what Mr Geisow told the Council, and will, I consider, clear me at the same time, of an implosion that may get abroad that I have acted in anything but a straight-forward way. You will, therefore, I trust, in .justice-to myself, kindly oblige hy publishing letter below, which is copy of one forwarded to that august body, the Borough Council.—Yours, W. C. Cochran. Drummond, 16th, February, 1897.

To His W«rohip the Mayor -and Councillors of the Borough of Quc..istown. Gentlemen,—l had sunt to mi a few days ago, a report of your last month's proceedings in Council, and I notice that you have been pieased to censure me for writing to the Wakatip Mail re your clerk's conduct to me, and have exonerated him from blame in writing an insulting letter to m« about mv fates. I respectfully ask you now to read my explanation about this account, which was made so much of by Mr Geisow; then, perhaps, you will not put so ungenerous a construction on iqy actions. I did not pass over to the storekeeper referred to, the account 1 had against your Council, merely to evade a settlement of my rates, as your clerk made it appear to you, (17s (id would have done very little towards paying nearly five.pounds), but'! gave Mrs Thomson the account, as she had supplied me wkhthe geods debited in uiy books to the Council, and she had the best right to the money, my stock at the time being low, as 1 was preparing to leave Quecnstown. As 1 explained in my published letter my only reason for non-payment was scarcity of cash, aiid the belief that there was no immediate hurry to settle. 1 never dreamt for a moment hat a ratejayer of so longstanding would have been so harshly iioalt,v/ith. Mv lime was very much occupied before leaving, so if your ekrk had been determined to get the amount I owed, he ouyht to have a-kul meforit—then'tlie understanding would have bett) come to—but he did not condescend to that; he evidently wanted me to feel the influence he had over the Council.—l am, etc., W. C. Cochran. Drummond, January 4th, 1897. ♦