The Meeting at Sandymount.

Otago Witness, Issue 2257, 3 June 1897, Page 10

The Meeting at Sandymount.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — Much has been written through the medium of your' paper about; the meeting at Sandyniount, and it seems to me to have given the various writers a. string to their bow to shoot their arrows afc Mr Larnacfa. Well I might say, " Fire away, my boys, you will not make & bull's eye there." Although it is said Mr Larnach is making a carriage drive into his castle it is nevertheless a public road, and I wish there were more, gentlemen of the same eta rap residing on the* Peninsula, and able to make some more carriage drives, for there are few and far between in the Peninsula district. In the Ofcago Witness of May 13 an article appears headed "A Peninsula Grievance." The writer says that the sum of £450 was appropriated through the exertions of Mr Green for the Peninsula roads, and Mr Larnach spent it on his ovra road, and that he got other £250 additional last session. Then the writer says some of the settlers started a growl, and Mr Larnach sent one of his trusty admirers wilh a message to them telling them, be. Now, Sir, I being one of the three that were appoiuted by a public meeting held in the schoolcocm, Sandymount, to wait upon Mr Larnach and try and get him to assist our member to urge our claim upon the Government re taking over main road, on behalf of my two colleagues and myself, and likewise on behalf of the meeting who appointed us as a committee, I say there was no growling, and no one was sent with a message to- us from Mr Larnach ; neither did Mr Larnach advise us to call on our M.H.E. Your correspondent is the only one that I hear of as growling ; but I would excuse him for that if he would writ© facts, for "facts are chieli th&twinna ding." There is another letter in your issue of !?atur« day apparently by the came writer — afc least the 7io»i. de vlume is the s«ne. I will only take notice of the last; sentence, in which ho says z "What is really wanted dewa here is a lunatic asylum." I will leave that portion of his letter to speak for itself, with this addition : that » man never describes himselE so faithfully as when he is describing the character of another man. — I am, &c, Sandymount, May 24. Aechd. M'Kat.

The Oamaru Mail states that a number of the yonng Earl of Senfield's relatives in Scotland intend to visit this colony presently to participate in the celebration of his coming of Mge, which is to be held in Dunedin. Tho strong room which is to be included in ijhe extension of the south-eastern w ' n & of the Government Buildings at Wellington will be four storeys in height, and its foundations will run 12ft below the surface, or down as far as the bed of the harbour.

During the past year the Napier Harbour Board has gone to the* bad about £5000. Its outstanding rates amount to £4000. A yonng man named Walter Findlay, manager at Salck'fl pavrnbroking shop, Napier, was arrested on the 25th on a charge of attempting to murder his infant child by administering verdigris. The accused was brought before the court next morning and remanded, being admitted to bail— himself in £200 and two «uretles for £200 each.