COKKESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 241, 12 October 1888, Page 3

COKKESPONDENCE.

To THB EDITOB Off IHB " EVBNING Milt." j Sir, — It is very sad to witness the drivel j into which "William Akersten"' is gradually sinking, I have known him in more robust times, when "Full of strange o^ths .... Jealous iD honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation. . . ." But now, alas I " . . . . Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, ' Is second childishness, and mere oblivion "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sana taste, sans everything." I am, &c, M. M. Websteii. — _ i

To the Editor of the "Eves-ing Mail.' ( Sir. — May I crave yonr iudu'gauco t-i point out only one more of William Akers en's iniaetatemontß. Althon^h my complaint was cleatly put and more thau o: ca reiterated, th&o a certain Counoillor tct«.-d faUniously when be tta ed by immendo (vide your report of Ir.at Council meeting) tbafc bhuCi y Cjnncil baii funds in haiti to pay for general works, when he knew than iho acooant wns largely in dt-b*, a f«ct William Abprafcen himself admitted, to the extent o' £1,729 16s sd, in your ißsae of the 6th inss.

1 Now fitter diverting facts in a most; una"oouotablo mauner he putu on *n air of injured innocence, and coolly saya I attacked him " because he undertook to show that wbatevf-r the oveidraft wna wo wero a 1 ; the t rae paying no interest to tho Bank." As tho person who iB-ik^i ilia a'ntemnut haa nof, piven irsc rhe opportunity I desired of meetiDg him faoe to fee, and it is us less continnio^ a correspondence with one who wilfully forgota find tnisrppreßr nts fact?, I leave tho pubjact with a s roug conviction that for wri^glinp, twisting, and turning '• Slippery William" has no equal. I am, &'.., 4 Anti-llumbug. P.S. — Permit mo to suggest, "and him., dreda are with me," that in tnoso c!uU times when news id eo&rce, and until you can Complete arrangement for cabling to tho Mail, the diary of tho late Emperor of Germany, William Akcrafcau should be appointed obief voracity writer ti your paper at a good Borew.