Correspondence.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 35, 12 February 1867, Page 2

Correspondence.

it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Csssar answered it. I am uot here to palliate my own eri'ors or mi-stakes — call them what you may ; but I ask you — are there no good deeds of mine to counteract or mitigate those alleged evil deeds ! lam bold enough to avow that the one, as compared with the other, are "as small dust, in the balance, and less than very nothing" (hear, hear). Even assuming for the sake of argument, that I had countenanced irregularities — assuming-, hypothetical!}-, even that I had been guilty of irregularities; am I on that account, now that I return like the Prodigal Sou to my father's house — that house which I have done my best in aiding to build— am I, on that account, at the instigation of one or two Pharisees, in comparison with whose antecedents my own, I do not hesitate to say, are bright as the noon-day sun — am I, on that account, I ask, to be cast out, to be damned to all eternity? (cries of no. no). If it is to be so, then all I can say is, adopting ti e language of the great Caidinal as addressed to Cromwell, had I but served my God with half the zeal I've served my country, I should have met with veiy different treatment (loud applause, wliich was followed by '-Three cheers for Maeandrew"). At the conclusion of the meeting it was resolved, '"That Mr. Macandrew is a fit person for the office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago;" and after Mr. J. G. S. Grant, who came forward, had been hissed and desired to *'diy up," "chain up ugly," and "go home," the meeting adjourned quietly.