CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 26 January 1863, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Thv.es. Sir, —“ Your seeing is all on one side,” said Mother Partington to the flounder ; and so I take it is that of your “ esteemed contemporary” Mr. James Wood. How otherwise are we to understand his finding fault with you for giving us “ two mortal columns” original and new (crisp and spicy, hot from the oven,) instead of four columns, in small print too, of “ cabbage twice sod,” and no gravy—the trial at full length between Stuart and Robottom ? which I s’pose he also got, in the main, from the Police Office clerk, and so saves himself the trouble of writing articles !! Whether or no, it looks all tidy like—Stuart’s trial on the one side, and Stuart’s placard on the other. Capital thing that “ uniformity,” as Jim said when he bit away both sides of the peach. But I forgot your esteemed contemporary calls your two columns “ vituperation,”—that, I s’pose, means “ abuse.” (How you newspaper men delight in long words ; I s’pose you think it genteel, or scholar-like.) I an’t got his Herald handy, but as I take it he began the row by pitching into you, and you just stood up in your own defence. Never mind, Times, don't fall out with Herald ; give her full swing. Do you go on—you, and Saxon, and others who help you, and give us something new every number, for I’m sure we need it now that the Herald is come to be a mere advertising sheet, and Thatcher and Clay both gone, and only R. H. left. I wonder who used to write the articles for the Herald. If you know, I wish you would tell Your humble servant. Gaff Top-mast.