Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 76, 24 September 1894, Page 2

Correspondence.

ALLEGED LARRIKINISM AT RANGIWAHIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAH. Sir,— ln your issue of the 12th instant appears a paragraph, under the heading Rangiwahia Notes, about genuine civilisation being scared away by what the writer calls this " ever recurring wave of drunkenness." Sir, I knew Rangiwahia long before a hotel ever stood there, I have known it all the time the hotel has been there, and I never knew a non -fighting man, much less a woman or child, to be insulted in the immediate neighbourhood of the said hotel. The present proprietor is the third occupant of the house, and the fact that a few months ago the householders' requisition to grant his license was subscribed by unquestionably the most respectable settlers in the district, ought to give color to the idea that he is capable of conducting a place of public resort. lam afraid, sir, that your correspondent is some fair young lady, who, between reading Deadwood Dick sensationals and composing her letter to you, allowed the dough to spoil and caused terror worse than the drunks in the shape of indigestion. The only thing I am sorry for is the fact of settlers being annoyed by so-called " imbeciles." La Grippe fiend has been scared away by the snow, aided, no doubt, by the terrible visitation of a man just out from a three months' sojourn in the bush, and rendered hilarious by a whisky or two. I am, etc., Peter Styles, Settler, Rangiwahia, September 17th, 1894.