ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Dunstan Times, Issue 614, 23 January 1874, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

We do not identify ourselves with the opinions that may bo expressed by our correspondents.] ' i o ELECTION' OP DOCTOR FOR THE DUNSTAN HOSPITAL. • —n—(TO THE EDITOR ok THE DUNSTAN TIMES). Sir : —A letter appeared in your issue of the 9th instant, signed" “ Mftj^lr’ ”on the subject of the election of the Resident Surgeon to the Dunstan Hospital, to which ip was my intention to reply in your following publication, >mt circumstances arose requiring my attendance in Dunedin, and how oh my return 1 gladly avail myse f of the opportunity of offering, with your kind permission, some comments on that production, With the view of showing that it is not written in that spirit of fairness that it protends to a casual readi r to assume, and that the subject demands. For I con'cnd that the subject, is one of grave'rm ment, and from which should be discarded all leelings either of personal friendship or ai in.o ity. But this letter has a one sided tendency throughout, in fact, it is, though professing justice and liberality, "a letter if n c urn i relation iri favor of ap I >age n of perfiction an “Admiral le (.iuichtoti *’ namid Dr. Stirling, w hose skill, exoe’lence, and cc- nomin go. vernuice has excieh d the efforts of all his pre lec, ssors. Wih a Idgotry and narrow minded betrays itself th ou.ch-

out, argume.it and words alike tailing him. On behalf i f the Gohlen Calf he enu Joys hi eats, and bids us to fall down and wor-r-’liip this Oo'den linage of his creation, and he punishment that awaits us for rebel-li*-n at lis ihciee, will be the f.ve of ■Shadrath, Mcshaek and Al.ednego, the fiery lunmce being the withdrawal of his sub. sciiption and p- asiidy others, over wtj m hiai flue ce may extend, and thus efnr refusal to vote for 1 Jr. Stirling will cause the Institution to languish for funds, a 111 u'timately ignominiou-lv |iemu. This i s very tal. talk .Mr “ Miner”, but we are rot children to he frightened by a myi ideal bugbear. One side of a story, and <s,ecially an one sided side may be swallowed if the oilier portion is never made kin am. But what are the real ciroumstanci s of this particular case. Let us for one moment thn.w prejudice and favoritism overboard, shutting our eyes to the feelings of pel sona! esteem or regard, and with our mental vision fixed steadily on the advancement and welfare of an I. s-itution, which i: is a duty we owe to ourselves and suffering humanity to uphold an I maintain, Glance briifly at its past history while under It. Stirling’s charge, and tlie conduct of the llesiih nt Surgeon fciimell as repaid* that Institution, of which it is profess-d he is the best man to whom yet’ ila inter, s a have been entrusted. I uuhesitatin.ly say that from the day Dr. Stirling took office, until the present moment, his career has been marked by one persistent tissue of inconsistencies, extravagancies, and domestic distnibancies. His that act (stamping the mm), was to break faith with his employera, and actually plunge them into the p:eliminaries of a law suit, which was onlysettled after trouble and inco; venience. It can be proved incontestably that the expenditure has exceeded more under his regime than that of any former Resident Surge u, ami generally the maintenance Ims been proportionately- increased. No other Surgeon has in any way approached him f..r his repeated acts of glaring inonn istenoy- an I weak uinde Ine-s, which has kept Tie Gun. mittee, the su'scribe s, and the public generally in a state of bustle, feimentation, and doubt. He will resign to-dav, to withdraw to-morrow; until at last lie crowns his folly by announcing hie departurelor Europe, and resigns preparat rv to doing so ; and, in th ; same brea hj, ho is found clamouring for the office he so formally and publicly renounces, though in the teeth of the fact that the salary—his everlasting war-cry—cannot possibly be increased a late ruling ot the subscribe) s setiing that subject at rest, it is to he hoped, for ever.

I ask the public : What can be thought of such a mao ? Arc we to endorse Iris dictation and cvcrlas'ing wa\ \varnncs9, with his manifest es in the Dnnstan Tim -s* I' there no other fish hut this on°? I think there are as food fish in tire sea as came out of it. I.et us catch the rijht o o and let this one return t > his native climaf >, as, accord ng to his own account, this dors not suit hi.n. I am, Ac,, K-UNQUAM DOII.MIO. January 21, 1574.