ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 71, 17 June 1846, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of tAb "Wellington Indefende&t." Sib, —Beaming tlie leading article in your paper of Wednesday last, 1 see you accuse your cofemporary of pride, for not acknowledging yctor Paper ; there may be a little pride, but I think it v mo'r c froni inability to answer your true and just txpot.un-8 of their inconsistencies. Not having read th Spectator,! presume that your quotation is correct, vhere the Spec, re-asserte there is no mistake in a leading article of theirs, where they accuse Governor Grey of tfying to injure the Colony, by misrepresentations to the Home Government. I think, by what I have heard of the Governor, that he ia too high-minded and straightforward t> act so unworthy a part. I have noilced your worthy cotemporary,' the organ of the Clique, has for some time been, beating the bush, attacking first one offi -ial and then another ; at last they have screwed up their courage to let the Cat out o/tKe'bag— its the Governor they mean, ami no mistake. I suppose it is a secret, when, wnere, and how they got their information, for at the public meeting which "was held subsequently to the Governor's departure, when the Deputation gave in account af their stewardthip, Dr. Featherston was asked by a settlor whether they, the Deputation, were sat sified *iih the Governor? he they were in few minor'pofnte, not worth mentioning. Now. the conduct of the Governor, if tV&e, (tru', I be. leve, iKere is not three settlers in the colony betides the CI que bjieve a word of it,) in that respect cannot be called a minor point, so that there the t>jctor has made a mis statement, and by so doing deceived the public ; or else the Editor of the Spectator has made a mis-statement, and by so doing has done as much as he can to injure the colony, by insulting the Governor without a cause. That there has been a mistake some where, theie I cannot be a doubt, but who has made the mistake J i Irave them to settle among themselves. I believ c the reason of their spitefutness against the (Governor is, because Oo use an elegant phrate of one of : them) they cannot humbug hfrn. I beg leave most respectfully to adriee the settlers, and particularly the working classes, when they att nd public meetings, to study their own interest a little more, and not lend their aid—yes, their powerful aid when united—in supporting the Clique, or, more properly speaking, the faction, in their attack upon every Governor and every Official... Their present oppoi sition ia nothing but factious. I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Ons of thb Working Classes. Wellington, June 15, 1846.

I Tα the Editor of the " Wellington .' ■ Independent." ' Sia,—lt would be well for small vessels frequentih? the East Coast to know, that they can l»y sheltered from all winds in the south side of Poverty Bay, from a reef which bears due wee* from the middle of Young kick's tiead, about 1£ miles distance from it, and about two eablei length offshore, where the Mana rode a heavy S.E. gale out. The reef. does not break, except when tl »e sea sets in from the N.E. I am Sir, Yiur's respectfully. t> iVIUNN. Wellington, June 15, 1846.