MR. BANNERMAN AND MR. JAMES FULTON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7568, 20 May 1886, Page 3

MR. BANNERMAN AND MR. JAMES FULTON.

May 17,

TO THE EDITOK. Sir,—The Rev. W. Bannorman's reference to Mr James Fulton, M.H.R., in your Saturday's issue was in a very bad taste, and can only irritate and offend those who know him and the part he took in the University Council. Mr Fulton is infinitely beyond the meanness attributed to him by Mr Bannerman of belonging to a " coterie "; for if there is one thing more than another for which he is universally known and esteemed it is his freedom from clique or partisanship. Besides he has no sympathy with the spoliation which Mr Bannerman

dreads and justly denounces, and is the last man in Otago who would take part in giving effect to it.- He w,ish&s the Synod,-in conjunction with the church'board of .property,-to retain the right of appointing the Professor of .Mental and Moral Science; but having done so to hanVJ. him over to the control and disposal of the University Council. This he believes to be necessary to prevent conflicting jurisdiction, and to save the Synod from possessing a prerogative which it has already found itself unable to assert. This is a very different position from that imputed by Mr Bannerman that Mr Fulton is a party with those seeking to " rob the Presbyterian Church of her educational trust." If Mr Bannerman would only abstain from unworthy personalities and insinuations his letters would obtain for him ihe best thanks of every well-wisher of the church.—l am, &c,

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