THATCHER’S LATEST EXPLOIT.

Marlborough Express, Volume V, Issue 237, 25 June 1870, Page 5

THATCHER’S LATEST EXPLOIT.

The Oamaru Times says :—The editor of this paper received last evening (9lh May), at about half-past six o’clock, the letter yiven below. It will be observed that Mr Thatcher did not pen this epistle until he was safe out of Oamaru. Before the receipt of the letter referred to we had written our local anent Mr Thatchers entertainment, which appears in another column, and we scorn to abate one jot of the truth for any threat of personal violence he may choose to make. As to the insinuations with regard to the editor “when in business in Christchurch,” he defies Mr Thatcher or Mr Anybody else

to say truthfully that he ever behaved dishonestly in his life. If the press is to be coerced by such threats as these, the sooner pistols and knuckle-dusters become part of the furniture of an editor’s office the better. At any rale, the editor is not “ such a cur," as to be deterred from writing what he pleases by any such threats asthese. Finally, for Mr Thatcher’s information, we have no objection to in* form him that the editor did not write the letter at which he appears to have taken unhrage, nor did he go round the town showing it, as alleged Oamaru, 6lh May, 1870. Sir, —This is to inform you that if you allude to me again in any uncomplimentary way, I will pull your nose in the most public place [ can find you in Oamaru, and will return from TimarU on purpose to do it; and I know I can, for none but a mean cur would have gone round the town showing the letter you wrote. Had I said all I could of you 1 could have alluded to your letting in the people of Christchurch when you were a draper. Whatever appears in your paper 1 will hold you responsible for. I care very little for anything you can say, as I am 100 well known in all parts of the colony to be injured ; hut I want you to give me one more chance, so that if you pull me to court you will have no excuse to say you were not warned.—l am, &c., C. R. Thatcher. The following is the local referred to above: — “ Mr Thatcher gave his farewell performance on Tuesday evening, in the Masonic Hull. During the day he made the mistake of ringing about the town the name of a gentlemen well known in Oamaru, as the proposed subject of a local song, and was rewarded witii a very thin house. Messrs Small and Daniells were loud y applauded in all their songs, and Mr Thatcher as loudly hissed, and when the Inimitable appeared to sing the last song of the evening, he was hooted, and hissed, and pelted with bad eggs art I rotten apples.” A later paper states that on the evening of Friday, the 13th inst., Mr Thatcher called at the office of the Oamaru Times 9 having arrived per Maori from Timaru, and tendered the editor a full apology for the threatening letter written by him (Mf Thatcher). The apology was cheerfully accepted. It being known, however, that Mr Thatcher was within, quite a crowd gathered outside the office, and refused to disperse unless the apology were publicly made. To this M r Thatcher acceded, and in a very gentlemanly manner Expressed his regret at having acted unadvisedly, and under a mistaken impression. Having made this avowal, he was greeted with loud cheers. He left for Dunedin, per coach, on the following morning.