CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 293, 9 December 1872, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To tub Editor op tub Nelson Evening Mail* Sm, — It is not much good sneering at Mr Luekie. That has been tried often enough, and yet Mr Luekie comes to the front, hot only in ' spite of sneers, but the numerous misrepresentations which he told* the people he -would be subjected to by a class. I think jour reference to bim in yesterday's Mail carries out the sneering principle to perfection. The Marlborough Express, in paying him a compliment as a "talonttd gentleman, who is deservedly known most out of his own country," knew perfectly wel* what it was saying. He is known in New Zealand as a man who has made his own way, and is as staunch supporter of what he believes to be right and just for the colony, for this province, and its people. As for your statement that Mr Luekie is deservedly honored most where he is least known, I treat it as a very great compliment indeed, for where he is hest v known and honored is shown by the facts, ot the last election for Nelson City— he beat a powerful ex-Superintendent (Mr Saunders) by four to one, and an old politician and exMinister (Mr J. C. Richmond) by two to one. Prophets are generaliy more honored without than within their own country — Mr Luekie is honored in both. I am, &c , J. H. Leviex, Hector of Nelson. Nelson, December 7. [Mr Levien must surely have written the above letter from dreamland. He says, "As for your statement that Mr Luekie is deservedly honored most where he is least known,'' &c. Why, we never made any such statement at all. What we did was merely to show tbat the writer of a paragraph in the Marlborough Express had, hy the peculiarity of his phraseology, so distorted that which was apparently his meaning, that his eulogium on Mr Luekie was open to an interpretation precisely the reverse of what he seems to have intended. If Mr Levien admires, as he appears to do, the manner in which the paragraph alluded to ia worded, he is welcome to his opinion, buc we really must protest against his palming it off upon us as our own "statement."— Ed. NE.M.