ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 712, 22 July 1878, Page 5 (Supplement)

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

tions foi ; .j.ool Committees and upwards. This is Jill provoking, but " Shillelagh " should endeavor to restrain his spleen. He has had favorable opportunities given him lately, and it would not do to rake up the past. The case lie refers to everyone in Oamaru understands and knows the means used of affecting the issue. It would not be to the interest of " Shillelagh" to have those means exposed. Besides, it dues not do tojdependtoo much on the verdict of a jury. For instance, if we were to take the issue put to a jury 011 one occasion by a counsel, a highly -respectable citizen in Oamaru—l believe known to " Shillelagh " —would have his reputation in queer street. I remember hearing of a counsel stating to a jury that they must, by their verdict, brand either himself or, I will say, A. as a perjurer. Well, if the issue was properly put to the jury, the verdict put the brand on the counsel. I would not found a theory 011 this, as I think the counsel was foolish. I might mention many such eccentricities, but they are quite beside the question : and I would recommend " Shillelagh " to throw aside his malignant feelings of jealousy and spleen. Let him look to his own motives and behaviour. Let him bow to the inevitable, where he cannot evade it. Let him deserve success, and possibly he may get it. Among a forgiving and benevolent people such as those in Oamaru his past behaviour will be overlooked, and he may be what he ought to be. He has some knowledge of how to behave if he would only use it. Let him in his own words resort to all fair and manly means for securing his own success, and bid good-bye to falsehood and base slander and f nil hypocrisy. We all desire to see a person occupying 1 lis position what he ought to be. Such unlieely transformations have taken place before ; let us hope that this one may not be utterly impossible. With reg-ird to the subject matter of "Shillelagh's" letter I. have nothing to say. The offering of a pound may be a joke or it may not. That it was ottered there is no doubt. One would have supposed that the mere joking 011 such a subject would have been sufficient to shock so pure a mind as that of "'Shillelagh's." However, there is no accounting for some people's vagaries. I am. Arc., A ! 'BOY. : ' TO TJIE EIHTOU OF TUB KViCXI.VO MAIL. Sin, —As some of your correspondents have been rather rough upon me in confluence of the remarks made in my former letter, I must beg a little space from you to enable me to say a few words in my justification. Mr. Hardy's denial of my statement in reference to Mr. Steward's action in the getting up of the requisition is 110 doubt true to the letter, but it is altogether false in spirit. lam prepared to prove that Mr. Hardy had in his possession a list of names which, lie distinctly stated, had been given him by Sir. Steward to assist him ill canvassing for signatures to the so-called requisition. I think that is about enough to settle the value that can be placed on Mr. Hardy's denial. My statement that the Auditors were impeded in their duties is fully corroborated by Mr. Locke's letter, notwithstanding Mr. Church's emphatic contradiction. lam quite content to leave the public to judge whether or not I stated facts, and if the latter, whether it was not right that ail those who were not acquainted with them should be made so as iooii as possible.—l am, &c. Browx. P.S.—Don't you think the writer of the letter signed Truth," made an importunate selection of his -num de plume, when he attempts to sit upon poor " Brown " with such a gushing air of in:lignat;on ; seeing that he was striving to ;hrow discredit upon statements which he should have known to be perfectly true. Perhaps, however, it was done inadver;ently, and in ignorance of the meaning jf the word. B.