MR. CARGILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 201, 31 July 1862, Page 5

MR. CARGILL.

To the Editor of the Daily Tijiks,

Sir,—ls it possible that the electors really mean on private grounds, to totally isjnoie the interests of the Province ! Mr. Cargili is not only an anti-sepa l-atioiiist, but he is anti-everythiug else that Otao- 0 most wants.

Do raise your powerful pen to show the electors their suicidal folly. They are cutting their own throats. Those who vote for him ought to have their names framed and glazed.

Yours truly,

An Elector ov Bhuce.

Dunediu, July 30 1562.

To the Editor of the Daily Times,

Sir,—For the last time I address you in answer to my letter in to-day's paper. You seem determined to act in an unfair manner. First you parade me before the public in an article without a vestige-of truth and calculated to hold me to ridicule and contempt' both as a puMic sen-ant and a private person, and uext, after such an assertion on mv part, and which I am prepared to prove, you still persist in maintaining a direct, and as i have reason to believe, a malicious falsehood. I say " malicious" adrisedly. You think it an. " harmless joke." I have yet to leirn that a directly untrue statement can be sustained as a Joke at all, aud more especially a ': harmless joke,'; therefore I certainly do not appreciate it. You are perfectly at liberty to sneer at my reference to the Supreme Court. I can tell you that lam perhaps, nearly as well acquainted with what I can and cannot do in a Court of Law as yourself. At any rate « hat money, intelligence, and energj can do, shall be done to satisfy me upon whose information the articie in question was written. This I am determined upon, as [ again assert that you have no possible right to print and publish matters and things without the slightest vestige of truth, and insinuating that a person does not know a man from a cow. You must allow me to observe that if you will favor me with your editorial presence on any nice dark night oa mv premises, yo;i will see whether I can not distinguish between yourself and a cow. "Were it a donkey instead of my harmless old cow, I might, perhaps fail in seeing a difference. At any rate you are liberty to try it.

With reference to your offer to pnblish my version of the afiair, I have simply to deny in toto the whole affair, i fired no gun, simply because I had not one. There was no cow in the garden, and I defy any person to say so. There was no cow taken to the pound, but if the '-'calf" who wrote that article was placed there it might do him good. I have now for the present done with you in the matter, and now proceed to further my enquiry in another quarter, and from which I believe the "malice aforethought" is centred. Yours truly, "■Thomas Calcutt. Dunedin, 30th July.