Correspondence.
TO THE Et>'7Or OF THE EVENING HXEALD: SEVEN jYEAIis ,a!GOC \.
Wahganuf, March- 25, 1870.' bin,—ln '69 "Independent Stranger" came to Wanganui, and soon after wrote letters on the practices of the English Church here. The tone of those letterlwas such as induced me to " pitch into" the writer, ashe says. I would have replied to this rejoinder, hut was advised by a rev. gentleman across the river not to do so and thus the matter dropped. That Independent Stranger" should have remained for so long a time under the dreadful impression that he bad been the death of me is a great pity.. Poor fellow ! What remorse must have been his! What guilty terrors! What frightful wakenings at the witching hour of night when the ghosts of the murdered haunt the guilty! I am glad - that . 1.. ■»., nas at length discovered his mistake; that he has learnt the fact that his old enemy Mai Fa? is still alive and able to kick pretty vigorously when spurred. I confess there is a slight analogy between his case and mine, (I refer to his quotations) and. that my own weapons have recoiled-iipqri me to some extent. '-Keep a thinW for seven years and you will find a use for it" Independent Stranger" has kept the stone I threw at him seven years ago,,and has now^E admit, thrown it back again with some effect.— I am, &c, "_ Mat Val Redivivus.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 814, 25 March 1870, Page 2
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238Correspondence. Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 814, 25 March 1870, Page 2
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