[2*o the Editor of tlw Herald.] Sir, — Your local in last evening's paper, re issue of execution against Mr. Rees, gives a very unfair statement of the case, and as it is likely to injure others, I desire to explain that no execution having been issued, and it having been a private arrangement carried out in my office, Mr. Rees not being considered in the matter, I hardly think it is a fit subject for a local, even if required to bolster up a bad cause. At any rate, you ought in all justice to ascertain the truth of the matter, prior to throwing your dirty water. I would also draw your attention to the fact that you have misreported the remarks I made at the public meeting on Wednesday evening last. I said that I had been away from town for 4 or 5 years, but was as well posted up in all Native transactions as anyone in the place. I did not say "that Mr. Rees was a fluent speaker, and had led them away by promises which he is at present unable to fulfil." What I really said was this " Mr. Rees was a fluent speaker, and had eonvineed the people of Gisborne that his scheme would be for the benefit of all parties, and that it could not be shown I that he had advised the Natives t wrongly."— Yours, &c, J. Oxjrr. [With respect to the first complaint in this letter we may state that the information came from the fountain head. With respect to the charge of incorrect reporting, if our memmory serves us, we think Mr. Cuff said that Mr. Rees was, or had been, doing his best in the matter of native titles, but that he had been dilatory in proceeding with them — or words to that eftect. Our reporter had no interest other than than to give a faithful digest of what passed at the meeting, and we have every reason to think that he did this ; but then it must be confessed that on the whole the meeting was very disturbed ; and indeed a very rowdy one, such a oue as probably our reporter has not been accustomed to attend.— Ed.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 932, 24 October 1879, Page 2
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