CORRESPONDENCE.
DR. HECTOR. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,— "Pollex's" Calamo Currents of Saturday last I observe the following statement:—" Full. twenty years ago he (Dr. Hector) declared that there was no gold in the Thames district, and by incontrovertible scientific deduction, he there and then proved that by no possibility could gold ever be found there." I characterise this statement as false, and I challenge the writer to prove its truth. Ido so not only as an intimate friend of Dr. Hector since his arrival in the colony, bub also in the interest of science, and as the advocate -of an absent man who has no opportunity of defending himself. Dr. Hector never made such a declaration, and never attempted to prove any such absurdity. —l am, etc., Thomas B. Gillies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9141, 24 August 1888, Page 3
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