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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 291, 16 October 1879, Page 2

To He Editor of the Wauarapa Daily. Sir,—ln your report of the Masterton Hospital Committee meeting held yesterday, a resloution was passed affecting me, to which I reply that in no way have I interfered with the Hospital management. The matron, a member of my church, sought my advice on a private matter, as her pastor. I advised her (right or wrong, as he case may be), and since then Bhe has expressed her gratitude to me for having done so. It is surprising, that in a British Dominion, a public body of men would pass a resolution, ignoring one of the first principles of British law and common justice, a principle which is universal in every free country, and almost so amongst the im'St degraded savages, viz., that before a man be condemned, he be heard. Yet, sir, the majority of the Masterton Hospital Committee ignored this, in having condemned me without having given me an opportunity of disabusing their minds of any wrong impression they might have had, or of justifying myself of any error into which I might have fallen in the discharge of my ministerial duty. I am, &c, J. McKee. Masterton, Oct, 15.