[ADVERTISEMENT.] STAR'S ONYON TO ADVERTISER'S SPECIAL.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1753, 15 August 1874, Page 2

[ADVERTISEMENT.] STAR'S ONYON TO ADVERTISER'S SPECIAL.

(To the Editor of the Evixiire Stib.) Sib,—With your permission I will reply to the letter signed " Your Special" in this day's Advertiser. t I Trill confine myself to giviag facts; and leave the public to decide between "Star's Qnyon" and " Advertiser's Special." I cannot discover anything approaching Billingsgate language in my former letter; on the contrary, I think I was very lenient with the man who thought fit to abuse the construction of the Enterprise No. 2, also herrpwner and her agent. I believe the public at large will agree with me— that the anonymous writers to newspapers (so numerous and. so scurrilous) are a perfect curse to this place, and the same in Auckland. They assume to themselves the right to blackguard every person and every thing that offends them; andil assert, without fear of contradiction from rational men, that such writers are arrogdht cads and common nuisances to, their unfortunate fellow citizens. The Enterprise No. 2 is licensed to carry a large number of deck passengers, and if any had to sit upon a dirty btnch it was the duty of " Special," as a man,' to have called my attention to the fact, and as there was room on board for a much larger number of passengers, I am satisfied the dirty bench could have been avoided. I cannot land 150 excursionists in five minutes; but as they rushed the boats, I instructed the watermen to do their best, and I would pay for those who allowed me time to land them properly and who objected to pay for their own boat hire. I did not anticipate the necessity of people being carried on shore from the boats. I therefore deny that my letter was intemperate and untrue. The fact is, " Special" lost a passage to Whakatiwai in his friend's yacht, an^at the last moment decided to make'one in the Enterprise No. 2. Unfortunately, •. I charged the" Special" for hispasstge, hence all this fuss and abuse. I am charged with seducing him and many others (to take a passage in that triumph of ingenuity the Enterprise No. 2. I assert this to be a deliberate falsehood, as I obtained his passage money from an accidental circumstance ; and his requesting the attention of the Inspector of Steamboats to the condition of the vessel, his abuse of the owners and agent, were to my mind uncalled for, and very impertinent. * '' E. Onton.