CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 932, 24 October 1879, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinion expressed by correspondents.] [To the Editor of the Herald.] Sir, — Will you kindly contradict the statement made by several persons in the town that I am the author of the letters that have lately appeared in your columns signed "Mercy." I know nothing whatever of the matter. As you are aware when writing to the newspaper, I usually sign my name ■■•- Edwin Woon.

[To the Editor of the Herald.] Sirs — Your report of the proceedings at the meeting on Wednesday evening last, cannot be called full and impartial, and to a person who was not present would con\ey an impression very different from the truth, Any person who was there will admit that Mr Joyce was heard very patiently, that on conclusion he invited questions, and that it was his interrogator and not himself who was interfered with. Mr Joyce received the absolute protection of the meeting from enquiry. It is not the truth to say that Mr Nolan "confined himself to an attack on Mr Joyce and the conveners of the meeting." Mr Maude was interrupted, but I most distinctly assert that he was not " prevented a hearing." After a little expression of publio feeling not half so violent as was graciously accorded to me (when I desired to put a question to Mr Joyce on his own invitation), he was patiently heard to the end of an abstruse speech, the theory of which I admit to be true as regards Orown Grants, but which is totally impracticable and fatal to nearly every title in the Bay under Orown Grant, and which I don't think any so-called Repudiationist would even in his wildest fights have dared to advanpo. I did not say that "I identified Read's Trustees as the ' Graballs.' " What I did say was in effect thus : — • " That almost the whole of the settlers and natives were in a state of profound peace ; but there was a small' knot of persons, probably about half-a-dozen, or even less, who had taken a great deal more than they were entitled, ' and would not allow their titles to be enquired into but wanted to hold everything to themselves. I will mention no names, but let us oall them for the purposes of identification the ( Graballs, their aotions are as much calculated to disturb the peaceful relations existing generally and the desire, of the natives to seek ]ustioe in a Oourt of Law, as the action of Mr Rees is to promote the same." If the public identify Read's Trustees as the "Graballs," that is their affair, I did not say that I did so, but left the public to take their own view on the subject. — I am, &c., W. H. TUOKBR. [Oar report of the meeting was not full, but we are sure it was intended to be impartial.— Ed.]