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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 306, 14 September 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We shall always feel pleasure in affording space for the free discussion of all subjects aifecUn,' the prosperity and progress of the province and colony, not endorsing any opinions i xpresst-.t in this portion of our columns, and always reserving to oursei-rss the right to curtail any expression w anting in courtesy ou the part of the writer. *,* AU communications must ho accompanied by the name and address of the writer in coiiMenue, and as a guarantee of good faith.

[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] Sib,— l see by your paper that a great many are supposed to have been .deceived in signing their names to a requsition, addressed to Mr. D. M'Lean, requesting him to stand for the General Assembly, and ■ which has been carried about the country. 1 for one was induced to sign it, • but had not the slightest■ idea at the time that I was pledging mg vote for the forthcoming election’, I was under the impression it was another -affair, altogether. — Tours truly, ‘ AWoekingMan. Wairody September 8,'1865.' [To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] Sib, —Will you, through your valuable paper, inform me- if there isanylaw for the punishment of such publicans' as keep people drunk for weeks together, which is well-known to be the case in the public-houses of the. Colony, with only a very few exceptions ? Why is such a Ceijie not punished I It is likely (hat, by the enforcement of such a law, most publicans would be ruined; but even that would be better for. the public than for men to spend from £2O to £4A) a-week in a puilia house -—besides the ruin of his healthy and. the toss .of his time, tyhich too often is the case. Not only to people that have mottey in cash do these dm,k-sellers give spirits; but also to people that have any property or likelihood to get property , as well taking from such persons a three months' promissory note.-—Tours truly, . . A TVohking Man. [ The feeling exhibited in the above simple letter shows, we think, that the writer . has, in some way, been a sufferer from the evil to which, in his homely style, he directs attention. We fear (fiat-there is no taw against the crimp,- except that of publib opinion . - The evit lies in fhp very nature of the traffic, which is. found to.'demoralise and deaden the feelings of those who engage in it ; so that even public opinion is not heeded by item. There is, incur opinion, but one • cwrg, and that is—-the *OVEiBTHHOW OF THE TRAFFIC ITSELF.—ED. H.B.T.]