ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 308, 1 July 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

[We are at all times ready to give expression to every shade of opinion, but in no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the sentiments of our correspondents.] To the of the Akaroa Mail. mSir, —" Sawdust" appears to be an article that possesses the remarkable power of kicking up a dust of another kind, and apparently has the same effect upon some individuals as the proverbial red rag on a turkey. But the most marvellous result has been the resuscitation of Mr Geo. R. Joblin. Where have you been, George ? You have not been seen Bince your memorable! performance as a member of the Railway and Drainage Trust. Know you not that a testimonial has been"waiting for your acceptance in the Borough of Akaroa ever since the dissolution of that body,'and I congratulate your late..constituents that, Phoenix like, tneir highly gifted ex-member has once more rjsen from his ashes. _ But your re-: appearance upon tho stage brings also the conviction that you are still, the garrulous gentleman-?- '.; V, ■■.:f-.-.: _/ \,_. ! -*' SVhose 'grand heroics acted as a spell."' ! But don't be trying to enlist the "Sundowner, as he knows all about the Drainage Trust fiasco. \ ~-.. ■■ i ■■'.;■■ ■' < ' '- But your twaddle and maudling solicitude about rates aud ratepayers' goes for nothing, as you ought to have been convinced long ere this that your opinion upon public matter is, and' never was of any value in the district, as you could

never command more than a dozen votes in your repeated struggles for a hand in the administration of public money, and if you had to bo summoned for your rates last financial year, that is no reason you should butt your head against tho servant of the Road Board, as no doubt he had his instructions. But you have evidently had a return of the malady you speak of and the "mountain ofjworda" alluded to in your letter dwindle to nothingpess, when compared with the oceans of insane verbosity you always appear to have at command. I notice that Mr A. D. M. I beg his pardon, H. S.—and you are pulling in the same boat just now ; take care the conveyance don't upset. H. S. should keep his temper, and remember that he was the first to commence hostilities without any provocation whatever, and in reference to a matter in which he was in noway concerned. But when men have nothing to do but loaf about, it naturally occurs tb them to find fault, and any fool can do "that. I would remind them when they have an accusation to make against a servant other than their own, the usual course is to go to his employer in a straightforward manner and do so, and not hide their sneaking heads behind a fictitious norn deplume. "Gentlemen," don't do such things, though-1 will give Mr Joblin the credit of always subscribing his name to his singular productions. The name looks well enough ih print, but its appearance always suggests the idea of ah automaton talking shop. I have now done with the matter, and leave it in the' hands of the pinchbeck aristocracy of Little River.—Yours, &c., Br. S.