Mr B aria way and the Kcv. P. B. fraser.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 54

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Mr Henry' Harraway still wishes to draw public attention to his discomfiture over • the board's records. He is the same gentleman who signed the select committee's report, so terribly exposed by me. He is the same gentleman who lefuses Io join me in having said report investigated by independent authonty, though 1 have s.igmatised it through, the province in language never before used regarding a report signed by public men. He also retused my challenge to take the verdict*-* of the province by resigning with me. Ho is, theretoic, a some-vvhot &orry, though angiy, foe. You: condensed repoit of my speech gives what ycui xeportei considered- a sufficiently lull statement of my remarks. ALy speech at Port ' Chalmers was written out in full, so that I should stand to' every word of it. • It v:onld, I learned, if printed in full, have taken four and a-half of your columns, instead of two and a-half given. Much to my regret, many pon.ts I turned against my opponents' were cut out. So the\ ought to bo tliankful,~Tjut Tievei" are. The part condensed was, therefore, not my work. I gave both letters' in full, signatures, < an-1 all, and the one handed in "at the board's* olß.cs was never represented as in the actual writing of a solicitor noi^ in a solicitor's name, ii jr did I say that -Mr Harraway understood ii was fioiti a splicitoi. All I said was, I hfnded it in, as directed by Hhe solicitor. I had asked him to move the .Supreme Court, to put mo in possession of my rights. As a preliminary, he wrote the letter in question and dnected me to copy it and deliver ib at the office, with a request written on it for a lepiy to be sent by 4 o'clock to my hotel. The letter duly came, which I at once took to the solicitor, who was satisfied. The letter had on it "Immediate, ' and "Kindly reply to above address before 4 p.m., ' and it was handed in at about 0 p.m. It Mr Harraway did not get anything from the Supreme Court it was because he backed down so quickly that there was no cause nor time to put it in motion. But what a qxiibble. 1 did not say Mr Harraway got a solicitor's letter, but that I did, and took it to the office. The point of importance, as your reporter wlio condensed my speech perceived, was that the chairman of the board beat a speedy retreat from an untenable position.— I am etc., . P. B. FEASER. Lovell's Flat, August 17.