OTAMA AND HOKONUI EVOLUTION.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 368, 24 June 1884, Page 2

OTAMA AND HOKONUI EVOLUTION.

TO THE EDITOR, /Blff^rlf;l,may;b.e.perinitjtq<i 4 Jo gay a few words on the letter of " Southern OfOss," I think that before charging " J.M. " of 'pla- <•' giarism he should have bronght forward ex.- vijl them in liz^e with extracts bom jfl the writings of" JTM. on the same subject, W and let it be seen that he was only a copyist. This " Southern Cross " has miserably failed <tQj<io,r]fchQttgiii I ;i>ek^Yft.[3f^gpag"rfr«m the bitterness, apad temper ai jt^letter, would be very glad to dait'jttW'coulcL 'fj.M.," of Otama, has s^ni out a fair challeng^, not only to ' <; B(»rtfaerii Cross V bat to everyTreader of the, JP NSIGsr , defying ihe» , f to jCQajict or prove him guilty of plagiarism. ''"'Sb'tithenx Cross " should be very careful not to make ; f^myßtemous, v ,«.nd- dai'k/.tes^uatio^^-^rhieiii. be cannot prove." It is" "very easy to under* stand why the writings of your Otama correspondent have been, attacked vrith^uch tinmerited'severity in your colvaanai. lf! *f say let " Southern Gross "-cota,©. out and pTodnce ins proof Oi plagiarisiUjOr let him lifeeanhtngrable man,' make'the ®ifkentt& honorable^io < Otama» If " Southern Cross " were a reader of the* Otago 4 Witness,' he would see that the writeroaMK/TKe'oryirpf/EyplutiMlSi that paperand Dr Galbiaith iv bis lecture in Inrercar- ; gill on the;Bamettneoryi brought f ©award the very same arguments as your Otama correspondent did. Does any sane mind accuse the I wrif§r"d|ithe |Witpe^^pr>G^lbfßitte with t plagiarism ? Sucjtf an exmbraon of Ja#irmiecilo t mind could'oolyi c6ffl®from a man who knew . nothing of what he was 'writing. Lst toot a „ ,ask_H S,Q.*' does Mr Dawson himself claim tot 1 i' beHaeiM^tot^MthelJigeoxyM I arn^T sure he has too -much good sens& to> do so. • Let^- me inform ". S.9."J;)ip't^i^§s.^ f ,?rincipal whom ne^tjelaifes is'as wfßffimmigiDai tor cff Evoluii«*ff asil'inatoiafA^e nOTF^-estab- « , liahed, fac ¥ s of . the p o^u^dity^ol ( $#J» rth ot of the eartn's HAot&. VeV^.e^fand aaa constantreaciet W yolir ?t pap4¥»l^«fiP upon himitio.) addhce asingfe; jja^sage qf^^giaxisnt against " Jf,]ll. " of: .p..tama./and if Aft egfl, lei your Otama cofresp&naerivbeac^ aOK'^^lfe dshdnor^iid'infamy that s ie t&tisc!ted:itd such , mean^mysj^ripugl^ponducjiwbut if "S.C. " hasrn..ade'.a'vin^ictive e&sjgo wfiib'fr Tie carnot substantiate lei iMiai (hide hiSEidiminishad head and rA^ver appfta&agjaui jp. Men» will rash in where even" (printers') aogelss j fear to tread.— Tain, &c, .11 O O .51 xl Tl ?£ -^ FAB»PI»A^. June 21st, 1884.