THE NEW INTERESTING FACTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1119, 5 December 1883, Page 2

THE NEW INTERESTING FACTS.

To the Editor. Sin, — I perused your contempor* ary last evening in the hope that I *wcmld find at leastsome to -reply to the damaging facts I set out in iny previous letter. The only thing*! could see, hbifoV6rf*«wi»*k letter, bearing the signature " Be« hind the Scenes,'' in which writer had "drawn a bow "at * venture." It is satisfactory to know that he has missed his mark, andtbar he feels the atiing of > >*my anonymous remarks There is no mistaking the writer of s the letter signed " Behind the Scenes^? The venom is of a dintinctire character, and this ,is only one of the many aliases of my friend. The question, however, not who I am, but whether my facts are correct, and his silence in this respget is strikingly suggestive. ... I am no w waiting to see ttiose dummies taken out. It is evident that.!, my last stroke struck a raw spot, bnt^s may inform him that I -have, a lash in reserve which will cut to the very bone. In order to give him some clue as to my personality I may in* form him I submitted a copy of your paper in which iny .letter appeared to a Wanganui friend, whoinformed me of a little incident which is vverjf suggestive as to the genuineness of even those " outside " advertiser raents. He states that the* canvA ser of this paper, went :to him is I Wanganui and asked .him f at ,*alf ! order to insert his a&y^jMifcimt. Hedeclined the honor, and^hjonght | rib more about it till & iew^mon^m later when the canvasser again f ajyj peared and asked for the^advertase* ment on the ground that the paper had been publishing it for the last three months ! At the same time ha produced a copy of the paper, showing the advertisement for tTChich *h6 solicited an order. MyMendN&ldrora that so far from giving him an order he would be glad to see his named remove from the columns of of such a seedy looking rag. Then the canvasser turned collector, and demanded payment for the-* i three months during which the advertise* ment appeared. My friendHCOuld not stand this attempt to blackmail^ and the interview terminated; lolfhf* what suddenly. I have no however, that the same gam&'liitii been played; with Bucees^/^nJ oxitP&jfr two occasions. I enclose c JniMi of ; the person I have referugi.loi^^l you; may depend uponfthe -iprrecfei ness of the information. Perhaps your contemporary will be-aUel to follow up this clue, thjdughJiorl mustf ■ #?: again remind 1 ?I -«fifin that the main question is as to the correctness of my state* ments., ; If anyone will" c'ompare^th* twp papers of Saturday ifisJE they/mil find that iny statements are absolutely correct, and it is positively refresh* to note, that even the writer signing* himself "Behind theJScenesw*' in his letter to the editor of the Standard (that's himself) alludes to the /aa« vertisements I mentioned as " your dummy advertisements." • .? j' I am &c., - ; A Business Majt. .