THE “DAILY TIMES” TACTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3126, 25 February 1873, Page 2

THE “DAILY TIMES” TACTICS.

To the Editor.

Sir, —I wonder where the insulting and abusive style of your contemporary th o Daily Times will stop ! In yesterday morning’s leader the Editor, or whoever wrote the article, appears to been as “ tight as a lord,” and fancied or dreamed Dr Dunn and the Good Templars had done him some harm, as during my time I have not read such a tirade of abuse launched at any man or body of men And such silly abuse! Fancy the following sentence: “The spectacle of a silly man skipping about the platform like an animated doll, &c.” If some old woman, who likes to see everything as staid as herself and her crutch, had made such a remark, it would not be wonder.-d at; but such nonsense to come from the pen of tho editor of the paper claiming to he the leading journal t>f New Zealand—is shameful. But in this morning’s correspondence Alan Clyde endeavours to defend himself against the attacks and abuse of an anonymous scribbler signing himself “Sigma,” and the “Ed. O. D. T. ” sneeringly informs Alan: “We have no doubt tlrat * Sigma ’ will follow our correspondent’s advice when ho takes to writing poetry thus adding insult to injury ! But if “ Sigma” ever takes to writing poetry, 1 trust the O. 1). T. will publish the firstfruits of his racky brains. If “Sigma” and the “Ed. (). D. T.” are not one and the same, their feelings are certainly at one; and one poet says : “ A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind,” I hope, Mr Editor, you will keep your evening and morning tails free from such silly nonsense as the Times has indulged in lately.—Yours, &c., Honor,