THE DUNEDIN CENTRAL CONTEST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14357, 29 October 1908, Page 8

THE DUNEDIN CENTRAL CONTEST.

f-ir.,—Mr M'Donald appears at his meeting to have made reference to my letters, lie will, of course, ikny that- all the questions asked in my letters have lreen put to him in private, when ho refused to answer for reasons best known to himself. Will your readers pleaso look at the letters, and all will agree that my questions were moidy and straighforward. and such thai could have Iwii answered if Mr .U ba<l wished -with "Yes" or "No." What, do wc find'; Mr M'Donahl lUiswerd my first letter with a tirade of abuss on my want of education, and then continued the correspondence under a nom-de-plumo, and evaded (be answers required just ;u he did last night these on the license question, trying to. run with the hare and hounds. Mr M'Donald throws oi.'t ti moan in asking mo to give my nam,? or come on his platform to bo abused by him'in a packed nicotine, for he knows quite well i-liat in my position J cannot f.;ivc a name through the prc-s nor cm, 1 hke jiart in a poliiic.'il meeting. ),j s | x>a . st ed c l«i-l!ongfl. I have 1:0 wish to have the coincidence of the Hillside Workshops m r 'ii plaved on nic as, uiifortumiicly, 1 m not jruli;pemk>nt of my work. TCkv!i.-rs will notice thai this challenp; was icfi until I was gauged owing l to this ciraimstunio. However. all being well, when I am free to do so Mr M'Donald may lv made willing to prove his sincerity after the election. Fancy his making out he docs not know- my identity! I have known ill" II"Donald some years, and lie never did like erilicism. but always liked lo 11 rule the roost." All my Utters have been shown to a friend of his before being sent to the press, and no question has Iron thought unfair by Mr M'Donald's friend.—l ilm etc., ' clp -. Loteb of Sincerity. Dttncdin, Oelobcr 28.