"WHO CAN IT BE?"

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 520, 8 July 1881, Page 3

"WHO CAN IT BE?"

To the Editor. Sir, —The above question is asked by a good many people at the prrsent time, not only in Akaroa but in other places, in consequence of the impertinent, mean, and uncalled for skits which appear from time to .time in a paper called the Liberty. No better name could have been given to it, as I am sure there is no other paper in the Australasian Colonies that takes such liberties with the private affairs of respectable, well-conducted people. And what is the object of such a paper ? Is it not that a few miserable specimens of (I was going to say the Darwinian theory) humanity may, for the sake of their own greed and spite, misconstrue the motives and actions of the people ? I am rather surprised that any person in Akaroa could stoop so low as to he connected with it in any way. I wonder what sort of a paper could be put together, were the actions of the Liberty crew brought to light, and all their little games exposed in black and white. It matters little who they are ; one thing is pretty certain, they have not a spark of gentility about them, for no person claiming the least amount of respectability would be connected with it in any way. No one is safe while such a stab-in-the-dark lot are about, who, fnr the sake of *' items," will pry about people's houses and watch night and day to find out the " .notes " in their neighbors' eyes. What a lot of oatmeal the staff must consume to feed the brain power required in the production of such a mass of " highly moral and intel ectunl " " items " as we get for 3d. My gracious 1 wouldn't I like to catch some of these reporters around my back windows! I wouldn't upset the tar pot over them. Oh no I "Every dog has liis day," and the Liberty's day will not be of long duration, for it is impossible that any paper carried on in such a spirit can exist for any length of time. By inserting tlie above you will oblige. I am, etc.. 11. B.