A GRIEVANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 26, 21 November 1879, Page 3

A GRIEVANCE.

TO "THE EDITOKOF TIIE MASAWATU lIEHALD. Sia,— l have ever found your columns open to fair discussion, bu t in regard to a letter from "Katepayer " (not written by me, as is supposed), you say that a line should be drawn somewhere I cannot understand you, Certainly if proved to be, written in a spirit of bifrer animus, then draw a line somewhere, but not "Until you have thoroughly sifted, or have had an opportunity of judging how far ."Ratepayer's" letter is in the abject case. " Ratepayer" may have taken a. simple method in bringing before the public a grievance ; if bo, then simplicity, in my opinion, should take precedence of arrogance. As the person to Avhom "Katepayers " letter had reference is in his public capacity an autocrat, I, for one, felt very much surprised in hearing the gentleman voted to the head of the Board ; but, Sir, when we hear him deliberately stating thtxt he trea.s all letters written to news- ► papers, tending to recall him to his dtfry, with contempt, then, Sir, ho is a gentleman in a public position,as you aver— - Money maketh the man, 7 ' The wani of it it's fellow— '. Tho roßt is all leather or prunella. v . ttut, Sir, power given to man to spend public money, who treats everything with contempt, means absolute power ; and I trust the two, independent members of the b'oxton Local Board will scrutinise the ac* tions of the other party representing ihe answer to Thurlqw's expressions as above. Tarn, &c, Hex by Blake. Foxton, 20ih October. ;

I When filling a cavity, dentis's . sometimes place a dam in a patient's ! mouth. When a too:h :a being exj tracted, the dentist is relieved of ihnt ' duty. The patient supplies all that are required. — Moston Transcript. I A Hardly- Ever Temperance 'o- | ciety has beou founde 1 in New Or-. : leans. According 'to the iClmira Gazette, the members "hftrdty over" drink, unless some one asks ihoiri; " What is editorial cuulo y ?" asLs a soxi 1 hern paper. Why, it is wh/n •a -Southern, editor is caught scaling chickens at midnight, and hfa brother editors kindly allude to tho master as a "strange freak of a somnambulist." Poetry -we Peeiep.. — Bceeher, writes' an American editor, : /s!\*j-a a million of dollars is a very poem. We desire to state that this article of poem will be accepted if wo have to crowd out advertisements fo make room for it. A mud turtle can neither fly, sin_?, gallop, laugh, cry, or go blackberrying, and yet if they are loh alone they get albng just as? well as the young man who tries to bo funny at a lawn party.