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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 201, 18 November 1864, Page 2

To the 'Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times.

Sie, —It is to be regretted that you reproduced those absurd rhymes of Thatcher’s in your last week’s issue. I, as an old subscriber, may, perhaps, be permitted to say so much. Not that those rhymes can do harm, because they are so absurdly weak that they fall harmless, but that it excites a feeling of disgust in strangers that so wretched an attempt at wit should pass current amongst us. Perhaps, after all, not so much harm as good comes of this matter, for having once read, if not beard, Thatcher’s productions, no man need be again afraid of his satire, for a more silly, worthless, utterly nonsensical affair I never before heard or read—the lowest London Cider Cellars would not admit such atrocious rubbish. I am, Yours, &c., AN OLD STJBSCRIBEE, Napier, IBth November, 1864. [We publish this letter in deference to the opinion of a certain class of people ; but we must be permitted to say that without entering into the question raised therein, we are following the example of some of the most widely-circulated and well-condueted papers in New Zealand, for example, the Nelson Examiner, the Wellington Advertiser, and other papers.— Ed. H.JB.TS\