"PERSONALITY."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAEOA MAIL,
SlB, —I was rather surprised on reading in Friday's issue your " Notice to Correspondents," to find you had refused to insert a letter signed " Doorstep," on the grounds that it was " rather too personal," when, 10, a few colums further on, I come across a scurrilous production from some one ashamed to put his own name, and who is obliged to use other people's bumps (because I suppose'he has none of his own) calling the attention of the public to the state of my premises (as if they could not see for themselves). I may just tell " Observer " that I don't fare a straw for him nor his friend with the big bump either. I expect lam at liberty to do what I like with my own Premises, and if my Bump of Order is not so largely developed as some people's, perhaps I have other Bumps quite as essential to qualify me both as a candidate for municipal honors, and also as a good burgess. At any rate, Mr Editor. I do not think I have done anything to deserve at your hands the insertion of such a letter as " Observer's," while you favour another by refusing to insert a letter on the gronnds of its being " too personal." Perhaps yon do not think " Observer's " letter personal ; if so, pray •what'is ? Till now I have always thought the Mail an impartial paper, for the f uti-re I shall draw my own conclusions. Yours, &c, HENRY BILLENS. [We are sorry that the insertion o" " Observer's" letter has hurt Mr Billens feelings. There is a difference between the personality that is calculated to injure a man's character or business, and the personality that is indulged, in at election times in electioneering squibs, of which latter class" Observer's" letter was simply & grossly caricstured specimen. Mr Billens Will, no doubt, ccc it in this light, as we ourselves did, and may rest assured that in any matter really affecting bis interests we shall be as careful ashe.could be himself.—Ed. A.M.]
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 120, 11 September 1877, Page 3
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345"PERSONALITY." Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 120, 11 September 1877, Page 3
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