THE FIRE BRIGADE AND THE LATE FIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 302, 8 December 1862, Page 5

THE FIRE BRIGADE AND THE LATE FIRE.

(To thi Editor tf the Dajlt Tiiomj.). < Sir,—Permit] me* to reply-to, the letter of' John sßiee published in your Saturday'sime, in which he .states hi« ''fprlevaßde'^tts jiejfcrm* it, antf blames me, tor »ot r h*nHiog;to,htm.£^,yj!)te(i to Mm at :the l«t , general meeting or the Fire, Brigade, s^^jVi*.., *l yote^^cotiditiorjljiUyj i«Roa T ffie^ whowere]toiaTi|rtlg»to^e^claJ^ the man bore an tnoJ^reM^hiuraete^wv^^vwl^ .kaowD) to the'iwU^f^^'^lutfetittitd^dak^i^^MU ttoe<i£2forfighUna:iu tbel«ttw^.^ln^itdaUion to

•fertea that-Rice- wai, received-Aero suffering from a ,s«ight bruise .on his- back;' thW-hs wa? inadavor ■w yell euough to leave,' gf>t dmok and returned to the Hospital to create a 1 disturbance, which caused his summary ejectment. Oa receiving this report, I ?i notJ? ei justified ia giving money, the property ,of tvs public, to one fthom I considered an undeserving object of charity.^ I Biu, Sir, your obe'Hent servantA. (J. liKES, „ ~ „ ' Capteiu D. V. P. B. - Dunedtn, 6th Dec, 1862.