"THE MISSING LOLLIES."

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 73, 19 February 1883, Page 2

"THE MISSING LOLLIES."

(to the editor of the standard.) I ; Sir, — Will you kindly permit me to make a few comments on Mr Honore's contradiction of my staff ments re the I missing lollies. At the general meeting of householders I- endeavoured to hare an explanation but was not' allowed fair play. = . Mr Honore was present, and asserted that he found them the morning after the treat, m the school room, and that I was present. Several of the' householders asked him was he certain that I was present, he said he was, and that he would not tell a lie. Sir, does that jgentleman remember a third person being present at the' time that he made the statement, Vthat he must hare taken them into his dwelling-house m a mistake." ,. Now, 81^ I maintain that nobody knows the secret of those lollies but the schoolmaster, or someone belonging to him. In his letter of the 13th February, he assorts that he himself found them ; and yet Sir, after sticking to that statement for nearly two months, he finds it convenient now to change his front m a letter sent to me by him, datel the Bth February, four days prior to his "Simple Denial." In ,tbat letter he refers me to bis sister as as being the party able to gire me further information, and that shit oan perft ctly remember telling me the next morning (which I deny), that she found the lollies. On the 10th February two days prior to his contradiction he calls upon, land appeals to me to let bygones be by. | igones, ascribing all tho trouble to his defective memory,: which, if true, I think, shows his unfitneas for his present posi* tion. Now Sir, this is a gentleman, who to be honest, truthtul, straightforward, and upright. Well doe i he show much of it m this case 7 He further utates that he will take no ; further notice, on the subject, I give him to unterstand that I will take further notice. before it is dropped. If, when the committee mci, he had come forward and 1 cleared my character, by explaining that m mistake the lollies were taken into his own bouse, I should have been perfectly satisfied ; but as he did not do so, and myself and family were laid under a stigma, I was bound to clear it up on their bohalf. The third party who was present when he made the statement to me about his taking the lollies can be produced. — I am, <£c, Patrick Oavanaqh, Stoney Creek,