THE "HOGBURN."

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 140, 3 November 1871, Page 5

THE "HOGBURN."

It i 8 evident from, the apologetic style, if we may so. call it, of the following local paragraph from our old traducer, the ' Southern league' (since defunct), either that the'last offensive* notice found its way into the columns', of that journal without the the knowledge or consent of his Editorial* Mightiness, or that that celebrity hasseen the error of his ways and repented himself of his abominable and mendacious effusion. In either case the people of Naseby should, wo think, be satisfied with the a,«en e honorable which has been offered : Hogbfbx.—The 'Mount Ida Chronicle* publishes a column of extremely abusive replies to a paragraph which appeared in the 4 Southern League.' Our reply to our contemporary's reply is that we have been informed by very bad characters that when they found Dunedin too hot to hold them they went to the Hogburn. Certainly the basis of our information was bad, but bad people are generally believed when they spe»k badly of themselves. We have seen well-known bud charao'- 1 ters filling a coach bound for the Hogburn, and we have seen a coach from the Hogburn discharging a load of people well known to tho, polioe in Dunedin. But we also know that Hogburn contains people as moral, as religious, as any people to be found elsewhere. Lika Charles Dickene we frequently listen to tho statements of people of a very black social dye, and at some risk, wo thus learn much which would never be learned by conversation with tho saints of the coloay.