ABOLITION.

Evening Star, Issue 3906, 31 August 1875, Page 2

ABOLITION.

To the Editor. *9 your contemporary, the Ota',’o Guaidian of this morning, tor its acknowledgement of my eloquence, and also the assumption of my intention to use it at the meeting to be held in the Athenmum Hall this evening on the question of “ Abolition of Provinces I only regret that my late illness will not allow mo to take any active pait on the occasion, and so prevent my verifying the expectations of that journal, as well as expressing of the electors of the Province,—l Am, o 0., t . Barnard Isaac, Prince* street, August 31. To the Editor. A Friend ” has written an intensely amusing letter-, full of such groat wisdom that 1 am inclined to think he must be a lineal descendant of Solomon. I would ask my facetious friend to take a few lessons in physical science before airin’.' his ignorance again, and then perhaps he will not make such a wuuderfu! discovery as that “soil" is “veritable dust. A t nen.l ” should not quote Scripture uniess he can do so correctly. In conclusion I would request tins savant not to attend the meeting to-night, as the declaration * hat will be made in favoi of Provincialism * would probably affect his weak brain and result in Ins being put into .Mr Hume’s establishment at bunnyside, where ho could rave on “ Abolition to his heart’s content.—-1 am, &0., j- * o'- Native Off ihe Soil. Dunedin, August 31.