UP-COUNTRY MAILS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1235, 13 July 1872, Page 2

UP-COUNTRY MAILS.

' (TO THE BDITOE.) '. SiR-rrln .reply to a letter . signed F. Wilckens, which appears in your issue of of the 6th instant, and which,. to say the least, is only remarkable by the abusive language it contains, and as he has challenged me for the truth of the statements made by me in a letter which appears in you* issue of the 28th June, signed "Napoleon ;" to confirm the said statements I am at liberty to have the following note inserted in this letter, which has been handed to me by the postmaster at Napoleon, who, I consider, ought to be sufficient authority in the matter;-—

■ -„.. "Napoleon Hill, July 8. "I, the undersigned, testify that the mail has not been delivered at- Napoleon on the proper day for the last four weeks. On some of these occasions it has not been delivered for three, days after it was due. " N.B.— The statement contained in your issue of the 28th" June is' perfectly true, \yhich is signed 'Napoleon.' " Robert RuTtßpoE,--"For J. M'Laughlin, Postmaster, . ... . "Napoleon." In the face of these facts, \vhich must have been well known to Mr Wilckens when he wroto the letter in question, how he can have the assur ance to. assert -that all the statements made by me were false, I will . leave your readers' to imagine. I

will further state that the neglect still on tin ties, and that the last two mails were not delivered in due time. The late snow fall did hot interfere in any way with the Napoleon and Ahaura road, which is and has always been open for traffic, and I am not aware that it is necessary to have two roads to one place for the due delivery of the mail. He seeks to justify his neglect by asserting that it is his duty to deliver the Half-Ounce mail first, because the population of that place is ten times larger than that of Napoleon. -I think it is his duty to deliver the mail according to contract, and not consider the import- • ance of one place more than the other. In contradiction of his statement as to population, I will refer, your readers to Mr Warden Whitefoord's report to the Provincial Council, which report is contained in your' issue of the 31st May as follpws: — Napoleon and Mosquito, 252; Noble's, 120 ; Orwell Creek, 50; total, 422 £all of which depends nn the Napoleon mail as* being at least three miles nearer to them than any other post office; while the population of Half-Ounce and Duffers is 475. Thus it will be seen that there is not much difference in the' importance of the two places as far as the mail is concerned. lam at.a lossto know : what I*. W|lcken3. means by peradnal sacrifice, as it is usual, when a person takes a contract, to fulfill it under any sacrifice, or else he throws it up. V.; :'.[ '..[,. , . : ; / ;.";,, I am, &c, ■.:■•..• „ . :■. Napoleon. Napoleon ' Hill, July 9, 1872.