THAT INDIAN YARN!-IN REPLY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 249, 17 February 1897, Page 2

THAT INDIAN YARN!-IN REPLY.

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Sil:, — I do not st-o the ndvisubilitv to give |1 quote your correspondent " Subscriber," wluwe Rriuunwr is fiiultvl " the k'cntkinau with the hvplienutcd muiir a titisc of bubonic plague," for the bubonic phigiic ctuinut l>« given. ;u«l, for the belie fit of your reulh paiiif'ulh ■ correspondent, " Subscriber, let sue inform hili* shut tin- bubonic phiyue is mi i pub Hindi t ml not ii phvsic, h-- b» Uuaid bust' iim behe\e. A more hideously },S.u tut; blunder than " ~e-e tin: ud\ >-,.dulit> to £iv>>™ iir olherw i-i' relieving hut), would not be found 111 the vmmv of 14 chdd ni the second >:.uei ud of uur public schools. And, I must ->. iv. tiutt I an. the •• mlvi-abilltv to' recommend "Subscriber" to tro back to the Mute t>ehoo! iipiuu, though I \crv much f«<nr he would imve to l.eijin ui Mandiird 1. " I o ofter on ban getting home,' " twit I'arr-Joiif* entrr*. Ac , i*» the Client of the I s.-rsuniwar at tlu- roiiiiuaiul of the pn"»un»mj{ |;ieku nnjM'l w ho tvoilld es-milogne mt with the •' that f.tiled. l»em hi' capability to cntinw me, Set !!!•• remind, hrni that linnK>- - 1 >.i•• is full of thill huU-d. and lli»t he lltllt,v!i Is o'ae of the i."!eute-»t lights tii.lt litt\e f,ii!ist . esptcirilU I!i l!.f ttls h "f lint;!;-!! ulnar. It .-t -.-Hit that while tbeit- ;• Isolation tl>«?re w »H I'tiwi tyn.-iritin <• he found. One hj«» only to ntud v tbw pu-»l• tloi! <-! tki* laud of eS|H-lUH|e:.t i] k^Uuvu and tailltw l»*u» ;© au oouvub

conclusion. " Subscriber" is one of the blots on the fair face of beautiful Maoriland. His letter, instead of being funny, is malicious, and betrays his hopeless ignorance in every line. He reminds me fan Ivisimnii wiu once picked up a copy » of Thackeray's " Vanity Fair'' and wished to know '• Phwat the clivil tliim fellows wanted to write sidi rubbish fur. Where was the good of it anyway !"

However much your correspondent may be able to criticise, I challenge hiin to produce anything that even the veriest "rag ' in New Zealand would accept ; and anyone. even like himself, would read. An honor which he has undoubtedly done me, since he is so well acquainted wiU my story.

As I do not wish to bore your'readers, I refrain from to-day from publishing any further portion of my story. I will leave it to your readers to say whether I should go on or not. Only let me say here that I decline to reply to the ignorant and malicious remarks of " Subscriber" unless he has a few lessons in English grammar ; for Critic or writer be he what he will, The scent of the Maori pah clings to him still. Ha ! ha ! ha ! —I am. &C.. F. D'A. C. DKLisle. Hastings, Feb. 17, 1896.