CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 2, 3 July 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We shall always feel pleasure iua (fording space for the free discussion of all subjects affecting the prosperity and progress of the province and colony, not endorsing any opinions expressed in this portion of our columns, and always reserving to ourselves the right to curtail any expression wanting in courtesy on the part of the writer. ■%* All communications must he accompanied by the name and address of the writer in conMence, and as a guarantee of good, faith. [To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] Sir, —I am but a poor working man, and have hard work to get a living these times ; but for all that, I an sorry to see the working men of Napier have, at a recent public meeting, passed a resolution urging his Honor the Superintendent to request the officer commanding the troops to stop soldiers from working. Now were the men really hard working fellows, they would never have passed such an unfair thing as that. Why are the soldiers to be stopped from earning an honest shilling when they can ? To satisfy the greed and spite of a few who call themselves working men I Is this the way the toil-worn sons of Britain act ? Alas, if it should be so ! As said before, sir, lam only a poor working man ; but I will with all my heart aid in any scheme whereby the effects of the late unfair resolution may be rendered null and void’ One word more and I have done ; —lf soldiers are stopped from working, crime will be ncreased. —I am, &c. 1 Argus. June 30 f 1865,

[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] Sir, —It will be in the recollection of your readers that, sometime last month, I urged the advisability ot the members representing this Prpvinceia the House of Representa* lives making known to the public either by letters in the local papers or by a public meeting, the course thej intended to pursue in the ensuing session of the General Assembly, to be held in Wellington. lam sorry to observe that neither of these courses has been adopted by either of our two representatives’ ; and I now one more bring this matter before the public in the hope of eliciting some definite statement from the Hon. W. Colenso and the Hon.J. D. Ormond. I am Sir, Yours very truly, Cms June 29th, 1865.