MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 401, 17 October 1884, Page 2

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

■ +-. — TO THE EDITOR. Sib,— Our school committee must rate very low in the estimation of your correspondent « Honesty " when they cannot ■ arrange the " ways and means " for getting up a prize fund without receiving dictation from him. We are not behind the ago at the Otama. Many other schools that were examined before ours and at the same time with us. have not taken the initiative yet of

getting up a prize fund. Our motto is Festina lente " There is luck in leisure." Your correspondent " Honesty " is truly a Lazarite full of sores, bo full that it would require an army surgeon to patch him up and to attend to his grievances solely. Why did he not attend the annual meeting and advance his claims ? t admit that he has a perfect right if he considers there has been a misappropriation of the money subscribed to inquire ; but there is a time and place for everything, and the annual meeting was the proper time and place. In regard to my personal grievance (if any such I have) 'to say the least of it I think it vras v«ry wrong and injudicious in your correspondent to introduce my name in any way. I know nothing of your correspondent s ;^ " Honesty. " nor of the grievaness he alludes to, and unless he meant to bring me into collision with my comrnittae, .with^whom I have been on the very best of term's^ . I cannot explain his dragging my name into his letter. Country school masters as a rule have as much as ever they can do to account for their own actions, and I wish to " keep an even keel." It is all the same to me- ■ what course the members of my school com- J mittee may pursue regarding the prize fund. - - I am one of those happy-go-lucky kind of fellows who cnn see the silver lining in the blackest cleud. If they think proper te distribute prizes I say " all right.'! and if they do not ' I say "all wrong,'! It will | come to the same in a hundred years, and ~ the school wheel will go round all the same. Let your correspondent " Honesty " take heart and consolation from the fact that I have no grievance even the alightest to complain of, and on the other hand I have in. fiuitely less to be grateful for.. When; I have; 5 a grievance to complain of I will know-" ' when and to whom to make it. — I am, etc, The Otama Dominie. Otama, October 14th, 1884.