CORRESPONDENCE.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 132, 1 March 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We arc not responsible for the opinions ex pressed by correspondents. The writer’ name, as a guarantee of good faith must be enclosed in the letter. TO THE ED I TOII Sin, —It is an,old saying, “ A straw will show which way the wind blow,” Whatever illfecling your Own Hawera Correspondent might have towards the undersigned in his private capacity, he should not prostitute his position as a public writer. It is very paltry to try and put onto ‘‘Rumour” any falsehoods he might wish to circulate. (If I wished to play him with his own tools, he would cut a very sorry figure indeed). If “Your Own” had wished to write an account of the case as tried at the R.M. Court outlie 17th inst, ho might have taken the Star report as a fair guide of what really occurred, and have left “Rumour” for what it was worth, or had “ Your Own ” such a burning desire to ted the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, he might have enquired of the undersigned ns to the fact of the case. I can assure “Your Own ” there are two sides to nearly every question, even as to what a owner of land might do in the event of his having paid from £BO to £460 per acre. I know one newspaper correspondent who holds the opinion that no matter what price a person has paid if ho docs not build and live on his laud it is very wrong indeed for him to let it for any other purpose, and the person that becomes the leaseholder should not under any circumstances bo allowed to occupy his holding. I take a different view, and think the unfortunate purchaser should endeavour to utilize his land for the time being. “Your Own” insinuates the Ranger was appointed to repress rumours to score head of stock, as a matter of fact I bad no inteiest in any stock whatsoever that had been running on either my own or any other person’s unfenced town land for five weeks previous to the Ranger’s appointment, in fact I had given one person notice to clear off a lot of his stock. Ho forthwith endeavoured to sell his surplus horses, and as to impounding “ Your Own ” wishes the public to infer that my stock, five cows grazing on my own unfenced land was the liist stock the Ranger had tried to impound. On that day fortnight the Ranger and his mate had tried to impound 15 or 16 horses belonging to three different owners. (Mr E. C, Mereeith, the Ranger, laid an information for attempted rescue, the case being dismissed by the K.M,) ; in fact, the same day he tried to impound my five cows lie had already been to the Hawera Pound witli horses and cattle belonging to five or six different owners. I can inform “Your Own” we have three times more milk (I am speaking advisedly) from tlio same cows since tlie appointment of the Ranger than wo have ever had since living at Normanby. If “Your Own” will try to sink personal feelings or “ Rumours ” in his public writings really desires to write the truth concerning this child, if he will enquire of me I am always in a position to explain my own business better than “ Rumour.” The oft told talo that everybody knows more about your business than yourself notwithstanding.—l am,&c. Francis J. Gane. Normanby, 26th Feb. 1860.