CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondent
CAUGHT) TRIPPim TO THE EDITOB.
Sib,— Yesterday's issue of the "Guardian " contains 4 quotation from a scurrilous English journal, "London Modem Society," and headed *' A nice Biahop," m which you give your sanction to an absurd libel on Dr Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester, and recently Bishop of Melbourne. What can be your object m spreading such a charge ? You cannot eurely believe that Bishop* Moorhouse is m the habit of retiring to his " back yard " and setting his " bull terrier " to fight other dogs of the " same species." Every one knows that Bishop Moorhouse won the respect and*admiration of all section's of the community during hiß ten years residence m Victoria. I imagine that the quotation was "funny/ and that you inserted it to amuse your readers. But I venture to suggest that the object of a newspaper is not primarily to amuse, and that truth should be the first consideration. There are a certain number of people who through ignorance of Bishop Moorhouse'a career, or through a natural inclination to believe any statement against a Christian minister, would readily accept the Btory as fact, and it seems to me unfair to trade m the ignorance of the one, or pander to the tastes of the ether.* The same issue of your paper contains a very sound article against larukinism, but it is a poor way to lessen that colonial evil by fostering that want of reverence for our leading men, which is one of the causes of larrikinism. I am, etc., E. A. Soott. The Parsonage, Ashburton,
May 25th, 1887. [Mr Scott ib perfectly right. The paragraph is perfectly un-justifiable, and we don't believe there is a word of truth m it. It got insertion through inadvertence, and the editor is exceedingly sorry for it.]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1567, 25 May 1887, Page 2
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310CORRESPONDENCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1567, 25 May 1887, Page 2
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