MORMONISM IN LE BON'S BAY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 594, 24 March 1882, Page 2

MORMONISM IN LE BON'S BAY.

To the Editor

Sir, —From the rambling garbled and disjointed sentences of your correspondent and the inflammatory leader in your issue of last Friday, an outsider would think there must have been an unusual commotion here lately. Kindly give me space to say a word or two on the subject. I have no more sympathy with Mormonism than I have with Nihilism, but I have sufficient of the boy about me to like '• a fair field and no favor." Neither am I going to defend the school committee, whom you so gracefully honored with italics, they are quite equal to that themselves if necessary, but I do assert that the proceedings of the meeting referred to would have been orderly throughout, had it not been for the interruption caused by the individual referred to (with very questionable taste) by your correspondent, and his black faced servant. As your correspondent was not present at tbe meeting, how can he give " a plain unvarnished tale" of what happened? There is no smashed window through which a black face could appear ; a cricket ball has done so and a twopenny doll might follow. When people light up a room they generally pull down the blinds, if they have any. The doors were not fastened, one was closed with the handle outside, No thanks are due to the poor pedagogue for he never opened his lips nor took any part in the meeting whatever. Your correspondent will see that people will think for themselves, and speak if they think fit, in spite of his ipsi dixit. Yours, etc.,

ONE WHO WAS PRESENT.