A CHURCH BRAWLER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 76, 10 April 1877, Page 2

A CHURCH BRAWLER.

+ TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sia, —I am glad, in the interests of public decency, that attention has at last been awakened to the necessity of suppressing the disgraceful exhibition which takes place in St. Peter's every Sunday evening. I venture to remark were the same misconduct indulged in by a person other than the individual alluded to, the Churchwardens would, bo found taking action to suppress the nuisance. I suppose the old saying will be applicable—" One law for the rich, and another for the poor."— I am, &c, EPISCOPALIAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sir, —I think when you admitted the remarks of " Sundowner" into your last paper, you must have been unaware of the fact that the party to which he refers, was a private one given by the baonelor gentlemen of Akaro a ; it was no common party, but was originated by men of the highest

moral and social standing, men, into whose society any husband or father might with safety entrust a wife or daughter; as for the ladies present, it is only necessary to say that they have moved in the very best circles in Lyttelton, Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Hokitika. and Tiinaru. Having - , with credit to - themselves, passed through the ordeal of such iefined circles, it is not likely that they can be taught by such a common person as the "Sundowner" evidently is, either how to dress themselves or the manners of polite society. As to you comparing one of the most thoroughly noble minded and useful men in the community, to the "Claimant," simply because he is a little stout, I can only say the comparison is odious. It is indeed well for newspapers, such as the Akaroa Mail, that the old law, " the greater the truth the greater the libel." has been repealed, for if it had not an action, which would have to a certainty resulted in heavy damages, would have been taken against you by BLUE BLOOD. Akaroa, April 7, 1877.