ORIGINAL COR DESPONDENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 778, 16 March 1877, Page 3

ORIGINAL COR DESPONDENCE.

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed b>j correspondents.] - o A REPLY. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAN TIMES.) Sir In your issue of the 9th instant, I observe a letter from Mr G. M. Starkey, in which he'dilates upon the conduct of Mr I’yko as to the manner in which lie has treated his constituents as County Councillor. I do not intend to answer the whole of the letter, hut will simply reply to the last paragraph but one, which will clearly show that Mr Starkey’s statement would lead the public astray (providing they believed it)—He certainly did leave Cromwell although very ill, and came to my Hotel, was assisted from the buggy by two gentlemen, and I can solemnly declare was put to bod, and did not leave his room for live days, was constantly attended to by Dr. Button and also by an attendant specially engaged for him, therefore, “ The much too illto do so ” he will have no difficulty in obtaining two medical certificates to prove, and at the same time will also prove the truth of my statement. Your’s, &c, ( William Games. Dunstan Hotel, March 9, 1877. THE CROMWELL ARGUS IN A FOG. (to the editor of the hums fan times.) Sir The more the Editor of the Cromwell Argus pitches into tho Dunstan Times, the more muddled does Ida brains become. It is a pity, Mr Editor of tho Dunstan Times that among the many things allocated by your contemporary for the aggrandisement and importance of Cromwell that a Lunatic Asylum in not included amongst in many wonts, Reading tho leading ar-

tide in tho Argus ot the (ith instant, the Editor, as a commencement endeavors to throw mud at the Times, hut 1 find that ho possesses no other guago of your abilities than to judge you from his own standard, and had ho been commenting upon his own conduct instead of your’s, his diatribo of abuse would have suited his ease admirably, for what he charges you with is exactly what ho has been guilty of himself. It is a positive fact of hallucination of nuud, the Editor of the Cromwell Argus evidently mistakes himself tor the Editor of the Dimstan Times. In tho matter of the County elections it is acknowledged on all sides that the Dunstan Times preserved a most dignified and independent position—it did not seek to sway the elector* cither way, but let things take their own course knowing full well that however they might turn, it would all come right in the end, and this was precisely how things we it, Clyde was chosen as the County town, because it possessed the best right to be so. Then you are charged Mr Dunstan Times with calmly waiting until everything was settled before you said anything, this is a proof of your wisdom, you did perfectly right to shut your mouth while the Argus brayed so loudly and so inconsistently. It was not meet that Balaam should speak while his ass spoke for him, hut when the Cromwell ass had done speaking and had made a mess of things, then it was your turn, and you embraced the opportunity to prove to your contemporary that notwithstanding his many disguises and pretensions to wisdom, the Lion’s skin would not fit him and lie remained but an Ass still. Your Cromwell contemporary in treating of the County Officers has evidently been borrowing his ideas from other newspapers, as a mere cursory glance at his remarks plainly shows that he has been reading the Daily Times, but the mantle of that journal will no more fit him than the Lion’s skin previously refeferred to. As to the duties of a journalist he is not able to teach you, I fully believe Mr Editor that you have forgotten considerably more than he ever knew. I pity, Sir, the Editor, who, having no ideas of his own is compelled to borrow them from other newspapers, and I must congratulate the Dunstan Times and its readers upon so successfully putting an extinguisher upon the arrogant pretensions of that agglomeration ot rottenness known as tho Cromwell Argus. Heading that journal anybody would think that the Cromwell people were quite new to politics, and having been defeatetLin their first attempt, sot up their hacks just as if they could not stand it, whereas there are a number of good old campaigners resident at Cromwell, from whom the Editor of the Argus minht learn a useful lesson. Believe mo Mr Editor that the Cromwell Argus does not entirely representjpublic opinion here. Your’s, &e., Co.mjion Sense. Bannockburn, KawarauJßiding, March 10, 1877, Throat Affections and Hoarseness, - All suffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost.immediate relief afforded by the use of “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.’ These famous “lozenges” are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is lid per box. People troubled with a ‘ hacking cough,” a “slight cold,” or bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to progress, resultiu serious Pulmonary rnd Asthmatic affections. See that the words “Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” are on tho Government Stamp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States. Depot, 493 ord-street, Loudon.