MR. ELMSLIE AND THE AKAROA FANCY FAIR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 54, 23 January 1877, Page 2

MR. ELMSLIE AND THE AKAROA FANCY FAIR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sir, —Mr. Douglas is rather unhappy, and very illogical in his defence of Mr. Ehnslie. He says Mr. Ehnslie has as much right to criticise Fancy Fairs as you have to critimayors and butcher boys for culpable.conduct. I maintain that he has not. In that one remark he bags the whole question, viz., that the Fancy Fair is culpable. If the Rev. Mr. Douglas will furbish up his logic a little, he will find that before he comes to this conclusion he must prove that the Fancy is culpable. Perhaps he or Mr. Ehnslie would kindly point out Avhere the culpability is, any more than in tea-meetings, to which he has no objection. His coupling His Worship the Mayor A\ r ith butcher boys is, at least, not in the very best taste. But I would respectfully ask by Avhat right Mr. Ehnslie ventures to tell us what is right and what is culpable ?

I presume neither he nor Mr; Douglas claims inf alibility. If not, then the opinion of any other man is as good as theirs, and any other man has as good a right to express it. Whenever I hear a man condemning all others who differ from them, I think of the answer Bishop Warburtou gave to the question of Charles the .Second —What is orthodoxy ? " Orthodoxy, your majesty, is my doxy, and heterodoxy is another man's doxj"." Orthodoxy- is Mr. Douglas's doxy, arid*.,-.'heterodoxy is any body else's doxy. •'■.'■ FINN.

to the. editor of the akaroa mail. Sir. —In your report of the meeting of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board, as published in last Tuesday's issue, that august body in solemn conclave assembled are represented as having surprise at the position occupied by me as Chairman of ■the French Farm School Committee," my. name not appearing on the rate roll. The application I made was on behalf of the School Committee, who, with the exception of myself, are all ratepayers, and the work asked for a great public convenience,.and should have been taken into consideration as such, without any remarks being made as to my position (of which I do not consider the Road Board qualfied to give an opinion, and which remarks, to say the least, display great ignorance and bad taste, and are moreover a gratuitous insult. The members of that illustrious Road Board r should know, especially their Chairman (who occupies the position of Chairman of a District School Committee), that it is not Viecessary to be a ratepayer under the Road Board Ordinance to be a member or chairman of a school committee. Hoping the Road Board will not again so display their ignorance.—l am, &c., PILCHER. F. RALFE. French Farm, Jan. 20, 1877.