MR T. W. GLOVER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 13 September 1888, Page 2

MR T. W. GLOVER.

TO THE EDUOB. Sir —I have read Me Glover'a oflfort to reply to Major Steward and myself. I oan aafely leave Mr Glover to Mrpr. Steward's tender meroiea if he should deign to notfoa him fast her. I see that I touched Mr Glover on the raw when I showed the comfortable little salary he was m. receipt of, and the amount of travelling expla'^eßJ^e"~WaT'«tiowed^*nona of which of course' were paid for board or lodging. The " kind friends " find that, and Mi* Glover rea'lees a benefit aooordingly. lam sorry for Mr Glover a naka I did mention thla little line. Hu dlalntereated efforts ] In tbe cause of temperanoe will not go down now to well, m aome quartera aa they usad to. Waa T really peraonally abusive? I'm afraid Mr Glover only thinks so. Still it was a very personal matter to let the public see what aalary he got and how he managed to get along. lam mean am I ? Well, it was rather mean to expose the motives whioh move anoh temperance aa Mr Glover. I'm afraid 1 muet think myself mean after that ; bat there was no help for it, I happen to know more about Me Glover than just a f aw of the Aahburtoa people and somehow I could not resist the opportunity after his ho oalled leoture, to put my knife m him. I touched a very aore part and Mr Glover, poor man, winces. Ha gets angry too and thta shows how aore he feela. He calls mv a mean humbug and all that sort of thing. But aeon re m the righteousness of my opinions his personally abusive letter fall short of me and whoever it la directed agalna*, may feel It. I dont. Perhaps it was an oversight on my part to le*ve out " deputations," but I ohee?fully put it m now, and Bay further that it does not alter tho line of my last letter. Mr Glover imagines me to be well-known to him, and fixes upon my identity. I have no objeotlon__to_hia knowing this, and 70a, Sir, civ give him my oard if he wUhea to know the mean humbug he has to deal with, Batter it la for Mr Glovnr I write under a 110 m deplumz. He oan make it to appear that there is no sting m anonymous correspondence. No, my dear Glover, I could not go from Mongonui to the Bluff, stopping at different places, on £100. What with my railway and steamer fates, and toy hotel bill, and a drop of Bometblng warm on the way, I am afraid £100 wouldn't go far. It la not everyone who la privileged to " loaf" his way on a trip through New Zealand, and leave the accommoda* tion houses anpatroniaedt Mr Glover would do away with hotels and have accommodation houses, bat he seems just the right height to spend a sixpence m a temperance hotel If he oan help it, Mr Glover started out with Ignoring my letter, and then straightway "lets ma have it" all through his choleric effusion. What slanderous rubbish did I write; Tell me, O wise and mighty Glover. Baoauae I let out what salary you got, and how much yon were allowed for travelling ex's, whloh doesn't go to the poor publicans, yon get " riled." Mr Glover says, " I never revile pnblt* cans." What, never! Oh, Mr Glover, oan you really aay that after all the hard knocks you have glvea them; Truly you might be styled the New Zealand " truthful James " 1 -don't believe you oould tell a— . Oh, no, Mr Glover ; you are too honeat for tint. And yet what about that little story of the banker In Auckland, who crushed up the unfortunate Licensing Committee man — " put the aorew " on him beoauae he (the oommitteeman) voted with hla oonsolanoe, and sought to olose an hotel which the banker wrb interested m. Oh !It waa a very likely story, and yet Mr Glover can't tell me the names of the hotel, the commltteeman, or the banker. If he gives them to me m his next, I will believe him to be what I don't believe him to be just now. The atory waa awfully well told, so mnoh so that a few enthuMaata cried " Shame 1" Now greater nonsense was never ottered by living man thin Mr Glover gave vent to. A lioenaed houae oannot be closed exoept for grlevoua misconduct, Once a new house is licensed its lioenie must be renewed from year to year unless there Is great laxity m the management or complaints by -the people near by. * I see- there is another individual "having a fjlng ' at poor Glover, and his wqrd; might be taken to ' heart by that gentleman, I don't think I wl{l say much more* t think I have roamed par fanatiqaj teetotaller pretty well. I will bq obliged [f you oan afford space for this letter, \ see you have red hot teetotal a.rtlale« m. svery now and again, b,nt \ th,lnk m fairness you will let me have apaoe to reply to Mr Glover. If I have left any part of Mr Glover underdone perhaps you trill be indulgent enough on another looaslon to let me " warm, him op " again. [ was very successful m " drawing the ladger " last time with that adtoit little )ait about the salary. With thanks before* land for space allowed. I am, eto , Anti-Humbug, September 12, 1888. '