"DALLY" CORRECTED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 26, 26 October 1883, Page 13

"DALLY" CORRECTED.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE N.Z, TABLET,

Sib, — I cannot help from time to time being v both amused and disgusted with the contents of the letters of your Auckland correspondent, " Dally." But I wish particularly to contradict, throngh your columns, the gross misstatement which he made in a late letter touching what has been called here the " cemetery eviction case." I have refrained from referring to the question sooner for the reason that the matter being before the Court it was unfair to do so, a reason which I think might have had equal weight with " Dally." As, however, the Bill-has been ignored, a fate for which I and many others were quite- prepared, I now beg to inform your readers that " Daily's ■' statements were exaggerated and uutrue, that they were generally looked upon here as having been inspired by a certain socalled Auckland Koman Catholic who was the actual instigator of the proceedings, and that they were almost a repetition of the many false statements which appeared here in the most bigoted of the secular journals. The real truth, as appeared by the evidence at the preliminary inquiry, is that a wretched mud hut had stood in the Catholic cemetery for some Si years ; that this hut was to be occupied by the sexton for the time being ; that the late sexton died some years since, the hut having then, for a long period been quite unfit for human habitation ; that notice was given by the Cemetery Committee requiring the widow of the sexton to quit ; that for a long time very disgraceful scenes had been enacted in the hut, to the great scandal of the neighbourhood and desecration of the burial-ground ; that the widow lately left the hut, having first put her son-in-law, a man of low character and a nonCatholic, into possession ; and, finally, that the Cemetery Committee, seeing an evident determination to hold possession in defiance of their notices, and feeling the disgrace attaching to the Church property, instructed three labourers to demolish the hut. It waa proved that the work was very carefully done, that every opportunity had been given to the occupants to remove their effects (which, by the bye, were proved to be worth about £1, although the owners had valued them at £18), and that eventually the hut was demolished, but nothing within it was broken. And for so doing, the Committee have really earned the thanks of the community in general and of the residents in the neighbourhood of the Cemetery in particular, our friend " Dally " to the contrary notwithstanding. You will excuse me troubling you at such length on this matter, but in justice to those whose "names were so freely and wrongfully used by your correspondent, I think it is but fair that this correction should be made. As I have already hinted. " Daily's " communications are generally unreliable, but as long as they are harmless their me rrectness may be overlooked. — Yours, etc.. Auckland. Oct. 9. VEBITAS.