Original Correspondence.

Dunstan Times, Issue 272, 12 July 1867, Page 3

Original Correspondence.

tVe Jo not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by our correspondents.) 0 ■ ■. DUNSTAN HOSPITAL VISITING COMMITTEE'S REPORT. (to the editor of the dusstas times.) Sir, —At the last monthly meeting of the Dunstan Hospital Committee, it must have been cheering to them to receive such, an attentive report from the visiting Commmittee ? they say they visited the Institution five times during the month, and found everything in a most satisfactory state, " from past experience, I am quite satisfied they could report nothing else " Tvith but one exception, they say the "moleskin trousers" tendered for by me, and which tender the Committee accepted, was not supplied according to sample, and would therefore strongly recommend they should be returned. I admit the trousers supplied by me were not the same brand as the sample, simply because I had not enough of the same in stock, to execute the whole of the Tender; but I emphatically say, and am in a position to prove they are a more expensive article than the sample I sent for the General Committee's approval. Instead of making capital out of the Tender for the Hospital, every person that has known me in this district for the last four and a half years, can do nothing else but endorse the fact, that I have ever had an earnest desire to assist financially, and otherwise in supporting such a creditable Institution as 'The Dunstan District Hospital.' The Visiting Committee consists of three gentlemen, to act for the period of three months and just to make the Dunstan public alive to the fact what they know about the value of cotton apparel, I will describe them, —Number one, calls himself an ex draper, because forsooth, some twelve years ago in a Country village at home, he was in the habit of seeing moleskin trousers made up by the Village Knight of the Thimble, —Number two, is a tradesman upon Clyde, who is known by his superior style of using the paint brush, the most wonderful thing of all in connection with him is, that he signs a document, stating that he ha 3 visited the Hospital five times in the last mouth, when it is patent to every person; who knows anything about the Hospital, the same individual never visited the Institution during the whole month, 1 question if ever he has, since he was elected, and the Moleskin trousers, which ho certifies, by signing the report, as being inferior to the sample he has not yet seen,—Number three, doubtful as to his knowledge of moleskin trousers, has not Ssigned the report, although be accompanied Number one on every visit he paid to the Hospital. Thus of the three, Number one signs from an assumed knowledge ; number two signs what he could not know, aud Number three knew too much to sign at all, I am Sir, Ycur's ite. '• D. M'CONNOCHIE.