CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 402, 25 November 1876, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Wk do tnt hold ourselves in any wiy responsible for the opinions and aeniiiy exits expvessed'by correspondents.All communications muat be accompanied by the correct name aud address of the writer, no! necessarily for publication, but as a, guarantee of good faith. (To ike Editor oj the Mount Ida Chkoniclb.) Ste, Smith reported my house in open Court last Saturday as being most horrible—being only a few wora-n in Kyeburn, and all drunkards; also, the constable visited my place three or four times lately, and upon each occasion saw drunken women in and leaving my place, &c. I may inform Mr. Smith that there are i no less than twenty-five women in Xyeburn, twenty-two of whom I. never knew to drink a nobbier, and are most respectable, quiet settlers. And I further say that no'woman was every supplied with sufficient noblers in n.y house to intoxicate. Consequently, I defy his constable to prove the truth of his report, if he reported it. And I say it is most unwholesome and injuriously false.—l am, &c, David Mkssent, Pas 3 Hotel, Kyeburn. Keeps no stores. [We are not able to verify our correspondent's information, there being no report of any such indiscriminate language having being used by Sergeant Smith. No doubt Kyeburn Diggings, like every other populous out-district, harbors, very much against its will, a few characters that are lost to all self-respect. These, however, are not likely to bring any discredit upon an industrious population ; neither do we believe, Sergeant Smith, in any remark he may have made, cast, or intended to cast, any reproach upon the resident population of BLyebum Diggings.—Ed. M.I.C.]