The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 193, 6 September 1854, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times.

Wednesday, September 6, 1854. The remarks which we made last week upon the letter of one of our correspondents seems to have given umbrage to that gentleman. We can only say that we are sorry they should have had that effect, and it is with very great satisfaction that we learn our total misconstruction of his expressions. But at the same time we are pretty sure that nine out of ten of our readers understood them as we did. We can only interpret our mother tongue as it is written, and cannot be always expected to find latent praise in apparent abuse, and to detect with the patience and skill of a commentator the exact amount of irony intended to be conveyed in language intensified by amazement and horror and enthusiasm. We hope our correspondent will not deprive us of the advantage of seeing his opinions upon the subjects which he has written upon, pimply because we raised some slight objection to his manner of giving them. The relations between the Colony and the Canterbury Association have become necessarily so complicated during the course of their connection, that it will require the greatest coolness and patience to examine them finally, with a view to disposing of them for ever ; and it is not by bitter personal attack that we should begin the examination. The Agent of the Canterbury Association, whatever mistakes he may have made, would be either more or less than a man if he did not resent some of the epithets so publicly and so lavishly showered upon him by some of the most violent partizans in the settlement. These last will have to bear their share of the blame if l|i effects result from such differences. By aj^dl bye we shall have to enter at length upon the whole subject of the accounts of the Canterbury Association : in the meantime we hope that the colony will not show an ungenerous and ungrateful feeling towards those who have done a great deal for the settlement at their own expense ; —and that they assuredly will show by raising the first question at issue in an angry and resentful spirit.