EN PASSANT.

Evening Star, Issue 3315, 4 October 1873, Page 2

EN PASSANT.

To the Editor. u/JT

Fir,—-I beg tocongratdlate the Editor of the Otago Daily Ti ’wwuponifagigcfcHtat the last few issues of his paper have been perused by me with less dissatisfaction than the previous ones', whi"h for a wry considerable tiihe have been saturated; ad itduham, with apparently “ monster ” attacks upon tbs Minister ot JpsUce* j for himself was too much to as>a preventative 6f sucti , cohUna^g^^Se, jsnrely that feeling for his' readers, might .have put ahead to those cowardly ago. While on thjis, mibiecti T, express the hope that the editorial discretion of that paper may be so used in future as to exclude such scribbler’s production a-asthp individual hailingfrom Wellington. toap*. peared in. a recent and from the high val upon it (there is no ac wanting for taste), it appears in the Witness of the 20th ult. Amongst other equally pretty things that the writer delivers himself of- are, He swallows much grit; washed much desnmanure out of his beard” (hope.it was a short and not very thickly-grown )One); calls the Premier a thoroughbred ? Mother members of the Ministers scrubbers, Ac. The more sensible portions of his letter, and redeeming ones, are those in. which he allows us to see that he by no means, far from the . truth in the opinion be has of hhnself, and. a man like him would neceisanly .be to “res ectable people. ” Thns : ! ‘• I was pensirated by awe When lapjf)roacb®d the outer circle of viceregality, and coßapaed. ’ (Fshould think so!). to be remembered to your wife or any respectable people':” ! What,’ a. relief to all concerned. ; t Emily, who dobs the blpck, writes pretty well—if Emily belongs to the softer sex. But the dear girl (surely she iy pot in old Woman ?) should bear in mind that in. polite society (and surely this is the y! class she desires us to understand she belongs to) personal allusions are generally- reckoried as impudent. Take this g md-naturedly, Emily. In future avoid -personalities, and I’ll continue to read your letters. 'Only a blockhead won’t take a good hint. How often does one grain of mis-statement in a bushel-of truth damn the- whole. There seems to be something of this kind ,in Dr B(.rley’s case. By unfortunately making a supposed dead man live again in one-’of our public institutions, and being unable to prove it, a number of serious -■ statements made at the same time in his letter, and which have never been. disputed, go for nothing. All minds centre dn the dead and alive object.— 1 am. Ac , R. B. H. Dunedin, Oct. 3.