DANGEROUS ROMANCING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 61, 18 April 1914, Page 8

DANGEROUS ROMANCING.

To the Editors .THE SUN. ' . ... ' Sir, —You allowed me on--March'27 to point out that Mr P. H. Hiekey's story about his. ad ventures ,«on the .road to. M.iungoturoto was evidently a pure invention, and none ' 'of Mr Mickey's friends seemed to mind. ■;...•'.. May I point, out now that ?; Mr R. Semple. romanced rather dangeroiisly on April 12 when lie said that Holland's only offence had been to-advise the bluejaekets not to iire, on their fel? low workers, but "on the cowards-who gave them the order to shoot.'/ r ''• Holland's version as given by his counsel was, that he meant to advise the bluejackets to fire in the air. i Doesn't Mr Senrple's aecqunt, as ah " intimate of 'Holland's) 'really amount ' to new and valuable evidence? • .■..-■■ > Or is it contempt-of court, as., tending .t'b; 1 influence the judge against Holland? Perhaps this letter of mine is indirectly contempt? I' think you. will agree that Mr • Semple, whether he was speaking the : truth or - merely gassing, was on very dangerous "ground.-—I am" etc., • ' '■■". WAIEIMA, '