OUR LETTER BOX.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 4, 16 June 1887, Page 3

OUR LETTER BOX.

WOOD WISHES. [To the Editor.] . Sir,—l, and a great many more in this district, welcome with interest your excellent paper, the Siasdabd. We do not believe in monopoly, and you will agree with me that the P. B, Herald has had its own way too long, and where one paper asserts one thing, and none other to contradict it, they ram down peoples throats the greatest trash possible. We like fair play—and that in mild language—one paper abusing and slandering another is not the way to advocate the cause ot the district, and its However Mr Editor, you have commenced pretty well, and you have the gooa wishes of tne country settlers with you. I know of many who are about to withdraw their advertisements, correspondence, and cease taking that washed out rag—the Herald. We hope for Justice now Sir, and we shall look to your paper for it, and justice cannot be where two sides of the question are not reasonably and fairly ventilated. We are looking forward to when your pa..er shall become a daily instead of a tri-weekiy. We do not like to see a paper turned into an advertising sheet wholly, but that we should have a fair share of local and Home news. In fact Sir, I take more interest in the present Home crisis now than th- n in local matters, for it is of more vital importance to all. I have not seen any leading articles lately in the Herald worth reading and we look to you to fill up the blank, which am sure you are well able to do. Wishing you thorough success in your unuertaking,— I am &c., Wsrtt’WisHßß.

A NOVEL IDEA ABOUT ROAD BOARDS. My dear Mr newspaper man,—lt is with profound regrit i hav to malt my aparance in your paper, but i canot hilp it. What I wanted to say was about the road Boards. The inhabitants hav been crying out for bords since winter set in, and I don’t see one on the roads yet. A number of bords were lasted by myself and others and yit divil a one have been layed on the paths to lit the darlin fair little cratures stip gintly on. Sure thin I would if i were elided be there 4 times a week on the broad of my back over the big mud-holes on the walks, and call to the little darlings to stip over lightly and as often as they liked. But I supose the bords that we chose as pillars were rotten and worm-eaten and should have been passed before chosen. I was this mornin olanely swept out of my house by fiuds of rain that came down the roads iu the ditches carying everythinge befour it in the way of thistles and cut bryers which cumplately choked up the culvarts, the water retrating gintly under my house. Why do people call these Ormond folks road-bords, when they are so useles and not fit four the roads. I am sure that brave Billy King, would give us better bords than we can git here, and at much less price, though they have 70 pounds in their hands. Dear me, but it is quare that bords should have hands, but if they have hands, it is a pity they are not made to use thim on the roads. I would willingly take the shingle off my house and put on the roads sooner than see {the ladies up to there nees in mud. I will write mor about th'm rotten bords nixt time. Micky, (Ormond).

THE GISBORNE GAS. [To tub Editor.] Sib, —Will you kindly wake up the Gas Company a bit. Goodness knows we pay enough for gas, and now that the quality is gradually going down. Whilst the price remains the same, it is high time someone spoke out. When full pressure is on, the light given is disgraceful. I don’t want to be nasty about the matter, but, I, with many others, intend to go back to kerosene as being cheaper and more effective, if an improvement be not speedily made. Yours etc , Big Consumer. [We have had several complaints lately about the gas. The Gas Company should put their house in order.—En.]"

FROM OUTSIDE. [To the Editor.] Sib,—As a quondam Poverty Bay resident, let me congratulate you upon your first issue. It is quite a treat to meet with a Poverty Bay paper in which no one “is gone for.” I find more reading matter in your paper than I get out of two Heralds, and I hope you will keep it up. Speaking to a Gisborne gentleman to-day, I showed him the paper, whenhe said, “ At last we have got a decent rag." Spe«k fairly and honestly of public men and other measures, don’t botch up any attacks on unfortunate men because they are unfortunate, and you will succeed. Wishing you every success, I am, Dear Sir, yours raithf ully, Tur isoanvi. Napier, Saturday. THAT HOSPITAL REPORT. [To the Editor.] Sir,—ln common with many others I have read the Gisborne Hospital Report (which surely must be an old one) with great disgust. Way should your contemporary give the use of its columns for the abusing of men who give time and trouble to the work ungrudgingly. Anybody who knows the truth aoout the drainage question, knows very well that the necessary improvements would have been effected long ago had it not been for the red tape of the Government. Plans had to be submitted to first one body and then another, and finally sent to Wellington, when I suppose they got shoved into a cupboard out of the way. The Trustees are not < parsimonious or neglectful.” They cannot do more than they can, having only limited means to work upon, and I do think your contemporary should have left them alone. Trusting you will give fair play to the trustees,—l am &c., Ore Interested. [Our correspondent will see by our leading columns that we have ventilated the question properly.—Ed. S.]