THE LITE EFFUSION'S

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 127, 4 August 1871, Page 5

THE LITE EFFUSION'S

(To the Editor of the Moottt Ida Chkoxicle.^

Sir, —It must be a matter of regret that persons should avail themselves of the privilege of inserting letters in your journal only to indulge in wilful misstatements, and to luxuriate in personalities. Instead of,stating some local or social grievance from which they may suffer, and hinting at the best method devisable for its modification or removal—notice the letters that have appeared during the hist month. " Digger," in a mass of affected verbiage, aludes evidently to a recent decision of our Warden anent two pieces of ground at present in possession of Messrs. J. Bremner and Stewart, the right of possession being doubted by " Miner." A. generous man would have brought this matter to C-urt and discussed the case on its merits. But it pleases " Digger" far better to suggest an irregularity against the Warden which he has not the moral courage to utter, or the honesty to argue in open Court. We wonder if " Digger " has ever heard of a certain bird that never builds a nest for itself, but is always on the qui vive to jump another's wherein to make a home—cuckoo ! Then, on the principle that u opposition provokes agression " we have a reply to " Digger " a perfect deluge of expletives and invectives, wherein the writer makes no remarks controverting former statements ; but evidently has not forgotten the old joke of the barristers, when advising his client, viz., No case, so you can abuse the witnesses. Case three does not require the skill of an (Edipus to discover the writer, belonging, as he does, to the genus " horsified gents." Here the writer relegates to the direst of do tins handicap pers generally, and a gentleman resident in our di trict in particular, who, he thinks, handicapped the horses at our last meeting. The joke connected with this letter—were it not such a slander—and its great unmasking of villainy {re handicapping) past and future, consists in the fact that the gentleman so elegantly emphasised in the choicest inueudoes was only one of THItEK.

Last, but not. least, is the one of this week's issue—the schoolmaster being the individual favored on this occasion, lie has been lucky in having escaped the bespattering in propria persona, but has been shot at through his scholars. The whole affair of the examination, with the questions and answers, might be considered a little funny, if we had not heard them before. Poor- fellow, he has a hard life between those who don't know, those who do know, and those who think they know. Till, bursts at length, each watery head o'erflows— Foul as their soil, and frigid as their snows. Now, I certainly think that if you must be inundated with letters against what people deem grievances, the grievance alluded to should be explained, and the proper authorities would then take cognizance of and tack it on to the person offending.—l am, &c., Union Jack.