Correspondence.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2176, 28 April 1870, Page 2

Correspondence.

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To the Editor of the Evening Star. I have just read the lengthy leading article of your contemporary’s issue of to-day, and cannot resist the desire to express my surprise at its shifty, uncandid language. Surely, sir, the writer is paid by quantity, for of a wish to do good and to help matters to a satisfactory issue I can find no trace whatever. Stafford will not do, nor Fox—the only person to cope with the admitted difficultes of the situation is the Editor of the Otago DaUg Times— that is in the writer’s estimation—for I question much if a second man could be found of the same opinion. I, for one, and I know I am not singular, refuse to accept Mr Editor as speaking my sentiments in the “recognised organ” of the province. I seldom read the leading matter: it is as a rule, • so vague and fault-finding, and would much prefer to see substituted reprints of well-written articles from other Colonial and English papers. They would give us something worth reading at any rate; but at present if one essays to read, a few lines generally suffice to make one throw down the paper in disgust. Yours truly, A Lover of a well-written Article.