ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 9 July 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

YOUR CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT } OF THE PALMERSTON MEET- ,, ING - I • TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. , Sir, —I read your correspondent's re* ( port of the] meeting in referenoo to the • Shag Point Company, and wan also pre* sent on Monday night, J have no. dew<j ! to enter intd a lengthy controversy averbo ; ' trivial a master-, and will therefore confine myself to thbistatemenfc that l the report is ' totally unreliable, teems' with misrepre-' 1 sentations, and is wantonly and offensively personal. Xf necessary. I will write,,, greater length in support of my ftltega*, ■ - ' tiocs.—l am, . . '— : ' S.M,G, - - *■■ July ' ' .:l n. ■■ THfc U^MiPLOYED.' .''l ' ' ■> to -thb' editor op i . | Sir, —Without attempting in any-way ", to showVr-appear tpthinkihatthe Oam&rq M4ii should be influenced by theapiniona , p£ its rea"cleijs, r'wisti to' point out .with itfeitetfbe to jyourrparagTOpV in toinight's -,',1 , jssue re, bfig* of* tfie~ jttafc myself and others, qll constant readers of your paper and bpUeyprsj in Us honesty a,nd straight* forwardness,; can hardly make ( "out ,tha iqeaning of the way lin.whioh it is worded. The question arose 1 amongst us, Is the Oamara Mail, how that one of its staff represents (with. Mr. Shrimski) Waitaki, going to be a one-sided paper; and lose ita "character for; impartiality, . My answer was" No," ttyere must be some mistake, So/ have written this knowing-that you'-will in some wgy irejjlya j ... { i u You, Jiave t ikeiL.as an example, ia-com-otiher .papers, a man* calling hjmseif :i pne> of the unemployed,- and J ackno"wiedgin; that he.l«ef(ised -t6 : oart been engaged as ;a ooaoh< .Tnan.'v:. ,:Now, Sir, I -notice in reading-thG reports of the meeting between the Tlttdm; ployed deputation Wd Jl 'At ' Wellington tliafc although 'terriers and GoYernmqnty shorthand writera.were» pre- ' ; sent; fbrft litWewas. reported, r,bythem main object of the deputa? tion.' IJp, quietly oontented them-, WSmh picking o^t,thj"s,'<)no. and I causing it to be tel%raphed 'all over the , be by person, reading' it, forgetting to mention any-