Original Correspondence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 260, 25 October 1865, Page 3

Original Correspondence.

• • Our columns being impartially open, %ce do tt't hold ourselves responsible fur the opinions of our correspondents.

To the Editor of the Lake Wakatip Mail. Sir,—l noticed in a late copy of your paper a '• local" with regard to the app-intmont of Mace Town as a polling place for the goidtields, in which you intimate that the Government have acted in the matter on the advice of s>me person or persons whom you do not name. I bejr to inform you that I have made inquiries at the GMonial Secretary's office, and find that Mace Towu was recommended by the Superintendent and the piincipal Returning Officer of Otago, and that appended to such recommendation was a petition to that effect signed by 140 electors. According to the Constitution and Electoral Acts the Government had therefore no option in the matter. I am, &c, Yuur obedient servant, Chas. E. HaUOHTOX. House of Representatives, October 14. To the Editor of the Lake Wakatip Mail. Sir,—lt has been stated to me by Mr Bradshaw that I am accused of having objected to his name and some others being allowed to remain ou the Electoral Roll through their temporary absence—in other words that I have revised the roll. I am informed that Mr Broad has lent countenance to such a report. Allow mi> sufficient !»pice to state that such a charge is utterly untrue, and that I did not object to a single name. I ki.ow that some objections were made; I know thai they were made from the Arrow ; I know by whom, and 1 shall take care to obtain letters from Mr Murdoch, R.M., the Registrar for Hampden.; from Mr Smith, Revising Officer ; aud from Mr Gillies, Returning Officer, about this matter, so as to prove the groundless nature of the charge. I must say it ia most cowardly to attempt to injure my prospects as a candidate at the last moment by the circulation of such rumors calculated to detach from my causo warm supporters. I am, Sir, Yours obediently, 11. MANDERS. Queenstown, Oct. 22, 1865. ♦ ' The wish has been expressed (says the ' South land Times') that we should suggest the pro priety of a pjblic reception of Dr Menzies, with his bride, on their arrival iu Invercargill. We mention the request made to us, not being willing to take the credit of a suggestion which has really not emanated from us. We shall be happy to lend our aid in the way of a demonstration, and the more readily because there exists no difference of opinion on this point, that Dr Menzies has earned and gained the respect of all who know him. The 4 Nelson Examiner' says:—" It is well known that alligators are more numerous than desirable at Rockhampton. On the 2nd September, Mr. M. Walker succeeded in harpooning and shooting his third alligator, which measured in length about twenty-five feet. It was secured on the river bank, near the Agricultural Reserve. On being opened, some bullock fat, a whole bullock hide, and the remains of a kangaroo, were found in its belly."