CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5016, 13 December 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

MOUNT EDKN RIFLE RANGE AND ROADS. TO THE EDITOK, Sir, —fn your sub leader of yesterday (Tuesday), after describing the parcels of lead (weighing exactly two pounds cach) and their labels, brought to you by a gentleman, you are pleased to say:—* * This, therefore, at once disposes by anfc.cipation of Mr. Snail, who avers, wholly without warrant, that lead could not be found uuless some one salted the hill with it.*' Now, sir, I said (and 1 am not in the habit of eating my word?) "That it would be difficult to prove that Artifcfrf were to be found over the whole north side of the mountain unless they wore carried there.*' You Bay 1 aver this wholly without warrant. 1 am ready to satisfy a jury or committee of the truth of this. Of course it is impossible

to demonstrate it through a newspaper. Bat, sir, I liAve a bone to pick wifclr you, and I ask what right you had to make use of my name in the question, and by so doing place rae by name in antagonism with concealed and perhaps vindictive individuals. You have committed a breach of journalistic good faith in making use of a name wholly without warrant, and in direct opposition to your own published rule.—l am, &c., J. C. SOALL. December 12th, 1577. [The m«-.ntiou of Mr. SoaU's name in our article was an advertence, for which we have to apologise, canned by the impression that he had signed the letter by "One of the Oldest Inhabitants'."—Kd.]