A CONTRADICTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5819, 7 January 1887, Page 4

A CONTRADICTION.

I The other day the Press Association I forwarded a telegram in regard to j a Wellington resident, -who has been j missing for some time, having turned jup in Melbourne. A correspondent sends ! the following to the New Zealand Times I concerning the report : — In one of your i local contemporaries appears a paragraph stating that, hb many readers may be interested on learning what has become of Mr A. L. Levy, formerly J. P. and Secretary of the Good Templar Alliance, they are informed that Mr A. L. Levy, of the London Hotel, Port Melbourne, has obtained a temporary license from the Metropolitan Licensing Court for a bazaar to be ! held in the Exhibition. And your contemporary further endeavours to throw ridicule on his name by allusion to terrible backsliding. I would ask your contemporary did it publish this in the interests of the public or from a feeling of private spleen ; and, further, did it know it was publishing a grosa untruth ? There are tho3e in this city who know Mr A. L. Levy, late of Wellington, and who also j know Mr A. L. Levy of th« London Hotel, ' Port Melbourne. They are two different j «nd distinct people, and Mr Levy has kapt i the London Hotel at Port Melbourne for at least five years. Your contemporary ought to " look before it leaps." I wonder is all the news it publishes as valuable as this piece of information and aa worthy of credence.