Mr Gardner on the Nighteaps Coal Co.

Southland Times, Issue 4174, 15 November 1881, Page 4

Mr Gardner on the Nightcaps Coal Co.

— -: ---<• i- -t> - ■ ■•■ . j :?■•■; ■ ;-. TU TJU;-lOt)lt<H{. (j ' •■; •• '' ' Slit,— .l notice in a recent is^us oi your journal, a letter signed William Hanclyside, •' (pfo Nightcaps Goal <3o), attacking. me for ■ what lam reported by the Smutiilaxj) Times to have said at a meeting held at . ft •■ i . W r ey>s Bush on the 29th Oct. ( Ihave only ■■'■'■ to refer that irascible gentleman to the ''■" v.-rbatiih report of what I said on that occasion .contained in the Western Star of ; , ! f ie 2nd inkt, and it would be well if Mr } .William Handyside (pro Nightcaps Coal Co) refrained for the future from tendering unsolicited . advice, and making . use of ' impotent threats to one who is UotlV willing arid able to protect himself and encounter ; all the trouble that this modern Solon, under ; the spirit of prophecy, predicts will tall upon him. This obnoxious quotation from the South1' land Times appears to have had the same effect that a red rag has upon a surly bull, r, „au,d .paused f the premature birth of pucli ".'.,"! cpneentrated wisdbiii as the f oil owing from "'' the r prcgnant pen of Mi William Handy- ...., » ! dc ; -(pro Nightcaps Coal Co): " I do not ' /seehow tlie'trOVL-rniu'ent could remove the terminus from the end of their omi line." ■,■ An idiot injght thank the gentleman for -rthis.infprniation, but an ordinary sans man ' would see the remoTal to be a mural imposisibilitv. Again— "Probably they (the Government) will put the engine and goods shed ' where .«V will best suit their traffic." ,; And I trust that they will not be : weak '. enough to be c.ijolcil "by any unfair prossure into doing the settlers .of the district _• <a gross injuiy by placing these, buildings anywhere else than at the Government , township of Wairib, wln'i« the public have .. every, light to expect ami insist that they : should -be erected, whatever may be tho ■i^Gpunter interests of a small private com'"^"'■paiiyj under the able championship of Mr „? William Handyside (pro Xighu-np* Coal Co)." "Let 'the galled jade \.ince, my ... witliersircunwriing." — I am, &c, Jamks Gard.vkk. ■r Birckwood, Nov. l^tli, 1981.