CORRESPONDENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2163, 20 August 1907, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

THE CARRENO RECITAL. [To tub Editoh.] Sir, —It is a matter for regret that the hooking for Madame Carrono’s recital is so meagre. There can be no doubt that she is tlie greatest artist that has ever visited Gisborne, and reports from tlio New Zealand centres all emphasise tlie remarkable enthusiasm with which her nlaying has been received. I myself had the pleasure of hearing her play to an immense house in Berlin, the true home of piano study, and cannot easily forget how the critical audience, many of them great pianists themselves, were carried away by her magnificent playing. Let us hope that Gisborne will appreciate the treat in store b.v giving Madame Carreno tlie crowded houso she deserves. —I am, etc., August 19tli. MUSICAL.

MR, AIcLAOHLAN AND ASHBURTON PROHIBITIONISTS. [To tub Editoh.] ,i Sir, —In view of my receipt of a wire from a leading official of tlie Prohibition Party in Ashburton, to tbe effect that it did not officially support Air. AlcLachlan’s candidature, I am surprised that your correspondent should again ask mo to rebut the charge. Until lie can produce a resolution passed bv the No-Liconse League ill Ashburton supporting his contention, lie stands convicted of unfairly trying to bring reproach upon the party he so virulently attacks. Your correspondent is angry at my assuming that he is writing in the liquor interests, and yet .lie says that lie _is “satisfied with the present” state of things. Is this logical humor or humorous logic? In order to show that he is not defending the liquor traffic, he assures us that he is a total abstainer. lam glad that he is, but this fact goes for nothing in this connection. It is well known that two of the agents—Messrs. AV. AV. Collins and J. D. Sievivright—employed some time ago by tbe Liquor Party, were teetotalers, for they ostentatiously paraded this fact as the customary nrelude to their lectures. The extreme reluctance of those who oppose No-Licens e to be thought associated w.itli the Honor traffic is very suggestive. If it he -a good and legitimate business, whv do not our opponents come out like men and openly justify what they are seeking to uphold? Instead of doing this, under cover an attack on No-License, they either hold up the white flag of teetotalism, or in some other way repudiate any connection with that which they so persistently defend. Every reader of your correspondent’s two letters knows perfectly well that they were written with a view to perpetuate the liquor traffic, and his sensitiveness on this point not only exposes him to the ridicule of tlie public, but is in itself a scathing condemnation of the fearful business in the interests of which lie has written. —I am, etc., C. PALIC, August 19. Agent N.Z. Alliance.