MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 173, 1 June 1871, Page 7

MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK

(To the Editor.) Sir, — The round robin and indignation letters in your last issue will no doubt have some influence everywhere except in the district whence they emanated. Here it is well known that the document in question was carri-d round by the very person to whose character it bore so high a testimony, and whose position made it extremely difficult for men holding their homesteads by mere sufferance to put him off -with a negative. I see Mr. Thompson himself rushes into the field, and in a letter which, from the internal evidence of bad grammar, and worse composition, I am quite willing to admit original, makes all manner of charges against me. He accuses me of being the author of all manner of abominable letters. Now, Sir, I think I may leave my vindication on this point to you, as I do not recollect having ever troubled you before. Then ho alleges I am guilty of direct falsehood. His charge deserves an answer, although it does come from so very reliable a source. Mr. Thompson ventures to assert he never ordered cattle off the run. Has he really forgotten that at the time of the school row he informed au opponent that his horses would be in the yard for him to remove next morning, and when the man went to fetch them, displayed so much " kindness and courtesy " as to refuse the use of the punt to cross them to the other bank of the Molyneux ? Does he deny this, or does he deny going about the district blowing what he would and would not do ? or that a refusal to sij;u his round robin was met by a volley of throats and abuse? If he denies these plrun fncts, his impudence must be greater than his varaoity. As to the memorial hawked by his convenient friend, about whom more anon, I derived my information from those whose signatures were solicited, and whose words I would sooner believe than Mr. Thompson's oath. I don't in the least blame a runholder from trying to protect himself, but I do blanie a public servant for making himself every one's tool, or indeed for mixing himself in any way with such squabbles. I wonder what may be the opinion of the Education Board on the question. Mr. Thompson flings some memorial about the Postoffice in my teeth, although I don'+ see how it concerns me or the Miller's Flat Block, unless it be that it originated in spite against a gentleman who did a good deal to have the ground thrown open. Had I been asked to J sign, I should have suggested that a<i more fitting time for trying to -do 2/ s injury to an old resident might h/r « been selected than when death/" 1 < sickness were in his house. Nfr ) events I should have felt asha/j? t0 J have anything to do with so fc* rtless c an action. — I am, Ac, / ( Welshman's Beach, Ma^ 2 ' , a