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Dunstan Times, Issue 865, 15 November 1878, Page 2

Having so repeate l!y, through onr columns, informed wouM-lje correspondents ,that.it is absolutely ntomary Utoir evasions siwalj

bs accompanied with their proper names— j not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith—we really thoughts the fact was as well known as that the sun rises in the east, or that of the impossibility of making water run up hill. Wo had a reminder, however, this week, that the fact is not universally known. The document we refer to. and that reached us, was encased ■ in a full sized official envelope, and from its bulky nature we foolishly imagined that we had a patch; but to our chagrin, on opening it we found the contents were a confused mass of words without an idea, and minus the address or name of our would-be correspondent. Thinking that, in our haste to secure the jewel we vainly thought, we had received in the official-like covering, we had missed the portion of its enclosure containing the all important information, we hunted that up, it not only informed us it was posted at Manuherikia, Nov. 7th, that it reached Clyde on November 12th—this little irregularity perhaps is explainable by the P. 0. authorities—hut horror of horrors ! that there was sixpence to pay on it, there being a deficiency of threepence of stamps, and threepence fine. Now, we do not mind having our time wasted in attempting to cull a few grains of corn out of a bushel of chaff—as the air of importance the receipt of double-large official envelope gives us makes up for that annoyance—but we decidedly object to be fooled into the bargain, and we now enter our protest. The writer, whoever he was, gives us no clue to his identity, the which we regret; we therefore in our ignorance forgive him, but we ask him not to do it again.