CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 272, 22 May 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

! AN EXPLANATION. (To the Editor of the Mount IdaOiikonicle.) Sib, —In your report of. the Waste Lands Board proceedings which appeared in your issue of the week before last (and also in several of the Dunedin papers) I am reported to have made an application to conduct the'saje of the St. Bathans township, and that the Board resolved that I might do so wilh the consent of the Clyde auctioneer, who is the Government auctioneer for this district. Those who are not acquainted with the facts are likely, from the above report, to misinter-" pret the nature' of the application. I did not ask for leave to conduct the sale, but simply that, should I be appointed to do so, ic would be necessary forme to receive notice to that effect, so that suitable arrangements could- be made. My reason for communicating with the Board in the matter was that at the last sale of sections in the district, which, should have been sold by the Clyde auctioneer, I was at the eleventh hour asked by the Board to conduct the sale; and,, from not receiving timely notice, was inconvenienced thereby.—l am, &c, Walteb Indeb/ ' ♦ : (To the "Editor.of the Mount Ida Cheonicle.) Sowburn, May 11th. Sib, —In reply to the Hamilton correspondent of the 11th : He says that Hamilton is getting dissipated. Well, per- ! haps' it is, I won't question it, but I am ! yerj. sorry he di:i not enjoy himself at the | wedding in Hamilton. I am sure every i one else enjoyed themselves very much. j He says the ladies will no doubt think him a brute when he says they were all over-dressed ; but he has' no reason to doubt, for they well know what he is without having to be reminded. lam only too happy to think that the working men can afford to keep their wives and daughters in good, plain, respectable dresses, but not gaudy, such as correspondent himself always wears. He mentally thanked Heaven that he remained an old bachelor; so do I, for I would really pity the woman that got him for a husband, or any sush fop like him. I hope I am not using too strong language; but he is just what he fancies the ladies' may think him. He has given up all hopes now of ever getting a wife, 'and may his hopes remain so. Poor fellow, he can never enjoy himself at a party, simply because he is.not at all noticed by the ladies,.or any other person.—l am, &c, A Working Man's Wife.