NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT.
Mr. J. Aloriarty. —Your letter is decidedly s])icy, and would create a beautiful breeze if published. We don’t mind taking the risk of a singlc-barcllcd libel, or at a pinch might negotiate a double-barrelled one, but you have a long tom, pom-pom, maxim, and a dozen mausers all in one, and we’re a trifle scared the thing might explode and do us bodily harm. In six sides of manuscript we have found seventeen distinct criminal libels, three sentences of doubtful eflicacy as “ prison-catchers ” and two wavering between “ libel ” and “freedom of speech.” AVe would like to oblige you, for we dearly love a real, good row, but then we are rather attached to our present county residence, and besides we don’t think Cemetery Hill House, Hokitika, would agree with our health, and we have a decided objection to breaking stones and being adorned with the broad ladder. We arc afraid we shall have to pass the savory morsel on this occasion. “ Freedom of speech ” is a grand thing so long as it does not entail “captivity of body.” When it gets that length we get frightened and “ sit tight.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 April 1901, Page 2
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192NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 April 1901, Page 2
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