CORRESPONDENCE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.! LET US HEAR THE OTHER SIDE. {To the Editor of the Cromwell Argus.) Si', —Reading a letter in the Argus with reference to Shepherd's Creek—wherein the writer gives his views most feelingly for himself, and to the obliteration of others—reminds me of a certain gentleman, who shall be nameless, who when asked to give up a trust, replied that he would do nothing of the sort, as he could do more good with it himself. But here the analogy ends ; for while Mr Scott pretends to see no goo.', resulting from the water flowing down its natural channel to be used there, he draws the ridiculous inference of an ill-feeling or merely a wish to prospect the ground, being at the bottom of the application for it. How does he arrive at such a presumption? As impotently as he jumps to the conclusion that we (sluioers, though not rejoicing in a proud title like the l: All Nations," are quite satisfied with our unambitious pretentions) belong to the " genus fossicker," who have put in. three long tail races, and though not yet finished for want of water, have found payable gold in each of them. When Mr Scott is seized with the cacecethus scribendi, may he be vivacious ; or if indulging in conjectures for the sake of the big party, may they be sensible ones. He must be in a desperate funk, and consider his right a very bad one, when he pens such amusing stuff. How easy for the great to make themselves small ! I, for one, have no objections to Mr Scott and his party having "homes, contributing to the revenue, &c," but I decidedly disincline to his enjoyiug such comforts at my expense. The merits of the case will be decided in a court of justice, not in so sapiently attempting to gull, or hi appealing to, the public, who do not care a rap for either of us. Yours, &e., Quid Pro Quo. Bannockburn, 22nd October, IS7O.