NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 April 1845, Page 2

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

]n reply to " A Subscriber to tlie 'Spectator,' and to tlie dinner givon to Mr. Sea," wemuststate that we know nothing positively of the omissions or commissions of the. parties who induced the public to subscribe on that occasion. As he remarks, "it is staled that two gentlemen kindly took the whole task upon themselves; that there was to Committee—no Stewards; that several of the friends of the Siamese Twins were invited, the expense of whose dinners were paid by the subscribers, though they appear generally iynornnt of the fact; that several parties who did not f/o to the dinner were requested to contribute a trifle loroards its fxpenc.es; that the dinner was not, in fact, given to Mr. Sea, but was used as a. means*nf endeavouring to reinstate a very delapituled reputation; that good taste was exhibited in bringing the damayed gentleman and the Judge he had attacked to the same table to eat together ; that instructions were given to exclude Mr. Revans, should he present himself, thereby covertly attempting to make it appear that the subscribers generally looked upon that gentleman in an unfavourable tight, and Mr. D. Wakefield as entitled to their support?' We agree with our correspondent that, "if these statements prove facts, time will show how far the conduct of the two memb rs of (he Committee, and of the Cornwtlce of the ' Spectator ' generally, is approved by the public; anil (hat in the meantime the authors of the dinner ought to stale the names of the Committee and the names of the Stewards • the amount received, &nd the total number of persons ivho received dinners in return for the same; and a til tie more besides. , ' Arid further, in conclusion, if a satisfactory explanation be not givp,n, it viill prove, as our correspondent remarks, " that there is something in Port JS/ichoison very much more dirty than the streets of Wellington in the winter season."

ll'e have received a second communication from Rusticus this week, which urrioed too late for insertion in today's paper, but will appear in our neat publication.