A REPLY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2083, 8 January 1870, Page 2

A REPLY.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir,— In your issue r f tonight I Lave read | the letter of your correspondent “ C.E. ”on ( my proposition to accelerate the mails from and to Great Britain, but as this letter is written in the ‘‘would-be funny” style, and as the writer screens himself under the initials “O E.,” to which' he may have ho claim, it is impossible for me to give his essentially ignorant and most silly effusion ay, however, inform "C.E.,” as patent from his dippant stylo of about “cradles,” “fixed engines,” &e., that h* pc understanding or knowledge of the ™ pittGit slip (>£ 1W capabilities, that | hayS Boon'bundredi of Vessels vatyirig ih'size, from J the large Calcutta bond'd shiji 1 to the coast- i iug schooner, and from the large going steamship to the small river steamer,

taken up for temporary repair in succession, on to the same slip, by the same cradle, and by the same fixed online, and re-launched again in close succession, and all by the same apparatus, and many besides myself in Otago who have had greater opportunities for observation than “ C.E.,” have also repeatedly seen what I have stated. I again affirm that what I have proposed can be executed (in spite of G.E.’s four mile channel, why not say forty), and at less cost than by any other scheme proposed, that one portion of the proposed operation is in daily practice at every patent slip at the larger porta, and the other portion the transfer of immense weight from point to point by rail on all the mineral lines in connection Tvith the great iron works of the United Kingdom. In fact, I propose nothing new, but simply the combination of two operations already in existence, to make one perfect and complete action —an action that, in its results, I believe will yet bo widely and eminently beneficial. Should “E.C.” live, he may learn—learn, it is to be hoped, to express himself with modesty, judgment, manners, self restraint, and discretion, eschewing all feeble attempts at wi' Inch Nature has evidently denied him, r Patrolling the effervescence of a moody md iv'temperamcnt. —Yours, etc.. ' Eobt> m . AslaNi EDUCATIONAL MEETING. (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —I notice in your paper of this evening that the annual meeting for the election of a School Committee for Dunedin takes place in the Middle District School next Monday evening. As the father of children attending one of the Dunedin schools, I have always considered it my duty to attend the annual meetings, and I have on every occasion felt astonished and indignant at the very small attendance. This is all the more surprising to me when I think of the great crowds that flock to the annual examination of the schools. I am sure it would greatly encourage both tho School Committee and the teachers if a much greater number of tho parents would take the trouble to attend tho annual meeting, and thus show their interest in the education of their children, as well ns fulfil a duty incumbent upon them I have always found tho Committee’s reports worth listening to. 1 hope, sir, yon will remind your numerous readers of their duty in this matter, and press upon them tho propriety of attending the meeting in the Middle School on Monday evening.—l am, &c , A Parent. Dunedin, 7th January, 1870. THOMSON’S ROAD ENGINE. CTo the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir— With regard to the letter of His Honor the Superintendent to the Home Agent, in which he gives an order (subject, however, to the approval of the Provincial Council) for one of “ Thomson’s Hoad Steamers,” I beg to state that, not only did the Executive agree with his Honor in giving tho order, but his Honor read the letter to Mr Vogel and myself before posting it, and we quite agreed with its contents. It would have been very easy for me to have contradicted the statement in the Daily Times, but really it was not necessary, as, although some may read, very few believe the trash that journal publishes ; but seeing you have deemed it proper to rebut the statement, I merely, on the present occasion, add my testimony in justice to the Su;- erintendeut, Hat justltia rual caelum. —I am, &c. J A. J. Burns. 7th January, 1870.