the annoying infliction. I see also you have been as grossly attacked in another quarter, namely the Wanganui Herald, one of those blackguard sheets which is a disgrace to the press. I think you ought to move for a criminal information against the fellow and the Government bear your expenses. It is all very well to say "treat it with contempt and live it down" and so forth. But such a paper as this has a considerable local circulation and probably from 500 to 1000 persons about Wanganui have no other instructor and believe all it