Original Correspondence.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 658, 3 November 1882, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

We are at all times ready to give expres sion to every shade of opinion, but in no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the views advocated by our correspondents. ALARMING. To the Editor. Sir, —Will you please grant me space for a few remarks regarding the Press correspondent. Of late I have taken the Weekly Press, and whoever it is that sent one paragraph to that paper, he must have a fertile brain. Has not Akaroa felt enough of stem facts in connection with the late fires, without a sensationalist writing a 'ot of fiction ? I quote the words from last Saturday's Weekly Press — " News is just to hand that Mr R. Bayley, who is occupying one of Mr Wai;ekerle's houses till his new hotel is built, has discovered a quantity of combustible, material under the house, evidently placed there with the intention of firing the building." Now, Mr Editor, perhaps you may know who the writer of this paragraph is. If you do, you might give us the tip, for may be, as tho Yanks would say, he may be thinking of running an associated insurance agency, and wishes to bluff all the others out of Sleepless Hollow, not Sleepy Hollow, as of old.—Yours, etc., DAMPER.