Yo the Editor of the "Norta-Cama Darty News,"
Sir,—I am informed that @ malicious lie is being circulated about me, in connection with the attempt to establish a cotton testing house and the framing and carrying out of certain rules and regulations for the better control of the trade and to overcome various dishonest practices of the cotton dealers, notably the watering of cotton before marketing it, and I ask you to permit me, in your columns, to deny the whole story, which is 4 malicious invention "that I have attempted to assist the dealers in finding ways and means of evading snd rendering abortive such rules,"
he only action I have takes has been in furtherance of the scheme and I have no hesitation in stating that the initial scheme and initiative originated from me, and that realising the extreme importance of the subject, I occupied nearly the whole of my time ona recent visit to Japan in discussing the scheme with the large mill owners and mill managers there and obtained their assent and promise, not only of support, but that the Cotton Association and Cotton Mill Association would give a guarantee if the scheme once and only marehase cotton which had took definite shape to abide by the rules,
passed the Testing House or Cotton Exchange, and on my return I so informed the Chairman of the Mill Owners' Associ tion, offering any assistance in my power to make the scheme a success:
T do not forget as my ighers appear to do noblesse oblige."
Tam, ete., Jas.
4th July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.