CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 217, 19 September 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

"We are not responsible for our Correspondents

opinions

To the Editor of the Evening. Star.

Sir—On looking over a file of your journal this morning for certain information I required in your advertising columns, I lit on a letter signed "Another Mechanic," in your issue of°the 13th inst., loudly complaining of the contumely and indignity he had sustained at the hands of Mr. Talbot, the Secretary of the Mechanics' Institute. Late as it is for a reply to that letter, I should not consider mysilf a man were I not to bear testimony to the gross untruthfulness of the writer, and sir, 1 tru3t to your sense of justice to insert these few lines. For several years I have been a subscriber to the Institute (long before Mr. Talbot became secretary), paying daily visits to it and noting the manner the members were treated by the present secretary, and I can solemnly assert that I never witnessed anything but the greatest civility and attention to every one; in fact, every member of the Institute I have conversed with, without one exception, emphatically pronounce Mr. Talbot to be the right man in the right place; the improvements he has made in the working of the Institute is beyond all praise. I have no doubt your correspondent is one of those curses to any Institute, viz , one of those who have taken out a perfect volume, and returned it in a disgracefully tattered condition, plates torn out, &c, &c. Surely no secretary who performs his duty could treat a subscriber with respect for conduct like this. —I am, &c,

A Ten Yeahs' Sttbschiber, High-street, Auckland, September 1(5, 1870.

To the Editor of the Evening Star

Sir,—Now that the inte'-est in the Volunteer movement appears to be on the increase, I would venture to make a few remarks which might tend to the benefit of the corps. The irregularity of height, and also the large number of boys, whilst that of men is comparatively smnll.in the different companies of the Auckland Rifle Volunteers cannot fail to strike an observer as they fall in on parade nights in the drill shed. Now the remedy I would propose would be, to set one company apart as a cadet corps, and ano her as a grenadier company ; this might induce more of the "bone and sinew" of our citizens to " roll up" on parade. Apologising for trespassing on your liberality.—l have, &c, Volunteer.

September 17, 1870,