Correspondence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 957, 2 March 1871, Page 2

Correspondence.

[We do not in any way identify omrselves with the opinions of correspondents,]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HAWKE’S BAY TIMES. Sir, —The Daily Telegraph professes to he a purist in grammar and composition. It will, therefore, no doubt be grateful to me for pointing out one or two of its own blunders in that line. The inhabitants of Auckland, it appears, are praying “to be consolidated into a borough” The fact of three constabulary men taking two packhorses laden with books to Patea is “an instance of this machinery As for its re port of the speeches at the nomination, it would be impossible to find two lines together without glaring insults to the Shade of Lindley Murray. Its correctness in other respects is about on a par with its correctness in this. The pretentious article about the English news which it published on the 28th Feb. is full of blunders about matters of fact. It tells us, for instance, that the French army under Faidherbe (whom, copying the Herald, it called Faidherbes) is kept in check by Manteuffel. Anyone who has read the last telegrams know that Manteuffel has been removed long ago from the German Army of the North, and has taken command of the Army of the East. A short time ago it told us that if was not its present iulention to initiate a policy that would settle the native difficulty. Initiating policies is generally supposed to be the work of Cabinet Ministers, not that of twopenny papers. Recomm.endi>, I suppose, jt meant; and, even thep, its observation was absurd enough in a|l conscience.—l am, &c., N.Z. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HAWKE’S BAT TIMES. Sir, —1 would recommend any of your readers who intend coming before the public in any capacity whatever, and who do not wish to make themselves targets for the Daily Tefegiaph’s delicate (?j shafts of satire, to buy shares in that respectable paper at once, and if possible to get their names on the Directors’ list.—l am, <fec, Scrutineer,