THE VALUATOR IN REPLY.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 April 1881, Page 2

THE VALUATOR IN REPLY.

[TO THE EDITOR INAKGAHUA W*EB] Sib,— Perhaps you might throw open your columns to a few comments that I am justified in making in reference to the cowardly and lying' attack that has been made upon me, us Valuator for this County fop the present year, in Saturday's Herald. I am not very fond of parading my name in the public Press, bat in the present instance I would deserve all the approbinm that has been spit forth from such an emanation as this that I refer to, if I were to pans it over, as some, perhaps, would do, with silent contempt. I 'will not refer at any length to the outrageous nroceeding of « newspaper writer trying thus to support the flagging interest of the paper of which he may possess a merely nominal connexion, in making assertions calculated at the very outset, and after, as lie says himself, three or four cases only had been disposed of on Friday (day previous), to bring me into contempt and ridicule, or bias the judgment of the Court, and by a volly of abuse and over- drawn pictures of abuses and misrepresentations, which exist only in the fruitful and elastic brain of this renowned literati, and which, if be bad even common decency in him, he might have deferred until the Assess* ment Court was over, or nearly so, before ! he lightened bis susceptible moral character of the dreadful shock it received, and the dreadful revelations he has made to an Bdmiring world. Hear this keeper of pqblic morality trying to keep himself within the meaning of criminal libel, while be thinks, and as he fancies himself (with his usqal adroitness) of avoiding it, while he speaks thus, after asserting certain statements—so stale as to be not worth going oyer again, via., " so far the proceedings sbpw that the Valuator has valued property twice, giving to each valuation a separate owner, while in another case he has entirely omitted a, property from the valuation list. With regard to the latter defect reasonable persons will admit thai the most conscientious Valoalpr migh.t commit the same error, And we must await the fur* ther proceedings of the, Conrt to-day before accepting a single instance of omission, as a wilful and disgraceful betrayal of the confidence reposed in a public ofijeer, whoge good faith js guara,n«

teed by the golem i bon I of mi oat the wil'ul disregard of which renders h liable to an arraignment for perjoi The case, however, of twice insertion the valuation of a si ogle property, a assigned tn each instance a distinct a separate owner, stands upon a tota different footing, &o , &c." Such ig t style of this moral instructor and pub conservator of righr and justice, a promoter of good will. If I tbouj that I would snfFer in t be comparison in the possession of good and gener feelings wilb the writer of that article would leave tbe district without unnec sary delay, and I only hope, for bis 0 sake, that the well-known cases in wbi be figured very prominently in < Courts in this district left him, on a U of those occasions, in that happy state mind, and without any qualms of cc science in regard to the sacredness of oath after those renowned and not to forgotten cases, and which he now ho forth frith such dramatic effect at something which might have happen but didn't. With your permission, af the high fever is abated, re the Asm ; menl. I might deal more fully with 1 editor of tbe Herald, and other mat and things connected therewith.— l i &., D. J. M'Kknna, Valuator (or the County Beefton, Marcb 31st, 1881.*