KUMARA HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2610, 17 January 1885, Page 3

KUMARA HOSPITAL AFFAIRS.

[to the editor. ] Sir— Mi’ Burger’s respectable defender, H. Hope, makes a poor advocate when he has to answer by general abuse. He should also be more careful regarding his statements, as I perfectly remember the unfortunate injury he refers to, when he had to appear at a committee meeting with his eye in mourning 3 but I do not remember his applying to me on that or any other occasion, and therefore his charge of treatment in an ungentlemanly manner must be inspired by his own imagination, or mast apply to the butcher who supplied the beefsteak to take down the swelling.—l am, &c., F. A. Moncktoh. January 16, 1885. [to the editor.] Sir —It is some time since the Hospital fete, and I think it hardly fair towards a certain person to remember all the unkind things that were said about his account, or even to refer to them in an indirect way, just on the eve of an election. Mr White should look at home and consider how he would like some one to hunt for black spots in himself.—l am, sir, Reproof. January 16, 1885. [to the editor.] Sir When Mr Hope who wants their votes informs miners that they are “ the most honourable, generous, and open-hearted class of any community,” he lays it on too thick, and treats the miner as a fool who can be made to think that the laying down of any other tool to use a sluicing-fork will make a man more honourable, generous, and open-hearted than he was before. Mr Hope has a lot to learn before he begins to teach.—Yours,

Ridiculous.

January 17, 1885.