MR STEVENS AND "MOONSHINE."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 153, 3 July 1867, Page 3

MR STEVENS AND " MOONSHINE."

TO THE EDITOK OP THE NELSON EVENING MAIL. Sie—You have published in your valuable paper several anonymous letters signed " Moonshine," which, although they are in no small degree personal to myself, I should not have thought it worth while to notice, had I not strong reasons for suspecting that they are written by a person holding;, by one of those freaks of fortune .we. some times meet -with in the world, a •vsltuati^n'of trust in this city of Nelson. • ..One of these letters asks who is Mr. Stei/vens that he should be trusted with two million acres of the land of this province, the unscrupulous writer knowing perfectly well that I never asked to be entrusted, and that it has never been proposed to entrust me with a single acre or a single pennyworth of the property of this province. : Another asks why I produce no letters of recommendation, the writer knowing perfectly; well that I had long before handed such letters to his Honor the Superintendent, who had laid them before the Provincial Council. And when those letters were printed your audacious correspondent asks why, if Mr. Stevens is what he represents himself to be, lie can require letters of recommeudation ? L Then he"points.to a passage in one of these letters, to show that I look for some

pecuniary benefit from forwarding the railway cause. I should rather suppose I do; and I am not aware that I have ever said or done anything te lead any one t6 think that 1 intend to make a present of my time and my money to this province. If I don't succeed in what I undertake, the loss will be mine, and mine only ; if I do, Nelson will benefit, and so shall I. 1 will not occupy your space further than to say that the motives of personal malignity — not towards myself, but towards others whom he hopes to injure or annoy —by which the writer of these letters is supposed to be actuated, would justify me in making his taiscon'duct known to his employers, which would unquestionably bring about his dismissal from his very comfortable situation; but I will charitably hope, notwithstanding his signature of " Moonshine." that he writes these letters after undergoing the process technically known as " sitting in the sun," which, I imagine, is more than probable. I am, etc.. Francis Stevens. Bridge End, Nelson, 29 June, 1867.