CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 59, 8 February 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

D&'MARRINER IN REPLYr * [_T0 THE EDIIOB OF THE STANDABD.J Sir, — My attention has been called to two letters m late issues of your paper m. reference to the cte*Vth of Henry Walljn g.t the Oiarencjqn Hotel. They are lioih inaccurate and incomplete. Had the writers taken the trouble to reati the full and con-ect account of the Coroner's inquest which appeared m the ManawaMi Times of February 2nd, they could not have fallen into this mistake. "Humanity ' asks why so long an interval took place between the messenger going for the doctor and his arrival. % Observer ' asks how the doctor knew he could have been of no use. The answer is to the " first," ; the doctor said to the messenger he would call about 8 a.m., and he (the messenger; left with that underatandi in,g{, and eaujd of course have had atten tion m a few minutes had it hikh r&vquired on his return. To the ," second^*,' tliat as the man was actually dead when the messenger 1 returned; no special knowledge is required to see that nothing could have been done jby any medical attendance after it was sought for. ••• Observer " also says the friends and relatives might suffer, from what he implies to have been, want of attention to {he deceased, if h,e will" read Mr Harper's evidence he will see that he. was not only mos t kindly attended to, but had declined further help, and that at the time when he might possibly have been relieved by treatment he himself thought it unnecessary. "I asked him," sayg Mr Harper m evidence "if I could do anything for him ■ buthesaid Jiewasattright," "Vfl^en those a.bo'u.ti \\m tt\Wsht d,ifer.e.ntiy and. took | tl^e matter m tfreir qwin he was i truly beyond human aid pseudonymous \ correspondents .should . vetnerabev i\ftt\ wilful igUDranoe is.Pttly ui.e degree less; culpable than wanton crime, and that a waiter under an assumed name should 1 be no less careful of his faots than certain folks are proverbially warned to be, of their memories. — Fam, &c. Hogh Maeriwbb, Palmerston North, Feb;7,-' '