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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 286, 3 December 1867, Page 2

To the Editor of tub ISTkh-son Evening- Maie, Sir — I observed a short paragraph in your issue of Saturday last, ostensibly emanating from Messrs Tutty and Laing, having reference to nay accusation of having seen Mr Grant treading out his biscuit dough with his bare feet. I can only reiterate my former statement, and swear in the most solemn manner that what I then stated was the truth. I would ask Mr Laing if his memory is tenacious enough to remember meeting me on Friday last, at the Toi-toi Valley stream, when he was watering his horse, and after wishing me good day, saying ' what revelations are these you have been making in regard to Grant?' I replied, ' I made no revelations, but what were perfectly true.' Whereupon he said, 'I suppose he has made his biscuit in such a manner >o save himself the expense of a brake,' adding at the same time 'He never made any great quantity, but what little he d<d make, he might have endeavored to have done so in a cleanly manner.' Now let me ask Mr Laing this question— was there^ 'brake' in Mr Grant's bakehouse when his business changed hands, and he (Mr L ) became the proprietor? And if so, why make such a remark as above 'so as to save the expense of a " brake?"' I am, etc., Jno. B. Sharp. Nelson, December 2, 1867. P.S. — For the information of the general public I may as well mention, that a brake is a large piece of '.rood that works upon a pivot to prepare the dougli in its rough state, previous to its manipulation, and its being rolled out into biscuits.