THE “STAR” CRUSHING AT THE “ELIZABETH” BATTERY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 140, 16 July 1872, Page 5

THE “STAR” CRUSHING AT THE “ELIZABETH” BATTERY.

To the KM fur <>t the Cromwell Aitci's.

Sir, —With your permission 1 beg to reply, on behalf of the Elizabeth Company, to the Idler of .Mr James Marshall, published in your list issue. Tlio paragraph in your issue of the 2nd iust., to which Mr Marshall alludes, was not in anv way instigated by the Elizabeth Company neither directors nor shareholders liavi ig known anything of its intended publication until they saw it in the paper. 'I he Elizabeth Company, 1 regret to sir, a«e unable to give Mr M’Ardcll credit for the display of any superior skill whilst employed as their manager ; an 1 they would he sorry to detract in any way from the reputation of the Uni.ed Companies’maniger in order t> confer an extra degree of credit upon one w ho is possibly loss deserving of it. 1 may mention, in conclusion, that oil" legal manager most emphatically denies havin': bad anything whatever to do with the publication o' the paragraph iu question.—l am, wo., A Du; ticrou of Tine Elizahetii Com i’a nv. [The subject-matter of the paragraph which has created this “tempest iu a tea-pot” was communicated to us by the legal manager of die Elizabeth Company ; hut in justice to that gentium in we must ad I that he was not made aware of our intention to publish it. To bestow praise is at all times more congenial to our feelings than to award censure, an 1 it wis with the view of bringing the Elizabeth Company’s battery into favourable notice that we penned the paragraph referred to. For the correctness of the information given we are not responsible.— Ed. C.A.]