OUR LECTURES.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2267, 12 August 1870, Page 2

OUR LECTURES.

To the Editor of the Evening Slnr. Sir,—Under the above heading your big contemporary, the Daily Times, treats its readers for the last week with a lot of rather dry stuff, which I for one never read, and wliieh I think the majority of the Dunedin public does not, like myself, care about one iota. Surely the columns of the Dai-’y Times could be better employed for the good of the public in general, than bavin-' Peter or Paul’s opinion of certain “isms,” for which nobody in the world cares, except Peter or Paul themselves. I remember some years ago, that His Honor Mr Justice Chapman treated us to a very interesting lecture; about points of law r ; if lam not mistaken. His Honor then promised to continue this theme. Perhaps we may again have the pleasure of listening to the large store of his Honor’s experience, if he will favor ns with another lecture, hut that a leading paper such as the Times protends to he, should day after day fill its columns with a lot of itscless trash, which even the writers, far less the general public, don’t understand, appears to me simply ridiculous ; provided, however, that the Times c.umot otherwise fill its columns. I am, Arc., 'Anti-Trash, .