TO THE EDITOR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 333, 17 November 1875, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir.—l see by your issue of October 27th that the mountain after much labour has brought forth a mouse, and oh, what a miserable squeak' it has, and what an invaluable commodity that conscience must be which can so gracefully ignore all its former convictions, no matter bow publicly expressed. But to descend from the flowery, and fanciful to the ‘'substantial. I find on reference to my notes that Mr H W. Penny’s speech at the indignation meeting held here re the non-delivery of mails per Howena is correctly and faithfully reported. To have given it verbatim would (had your compositor been successful in setting it in type) have been quite unintelligible, for I must inform you that added to Mr Penny's con* stitutional oratorical obscurity, he, although the originator and convener of the meeting , had to be dragged from his virtuous couch by a deputation of the meeting which had met at the advertised time and were waiting for htm.—l am, &c,, “your own correspondent/' Anti Tuek-Coat. Opotiki, November 3,1873.