A Christian Indeed.
■-•■••.v -(UNITED^ PRESS ASSOCrATIOX.) . • Dunedin, A prill 5. ; The Eveniug Star publishes the following letter, received by the sub-editor from the Rev A. C. Gillies, Presbyterian miuistev, this evening :— v Sir, — T Sent you a note askiugyou to send -a reporter to give a local on Mr John Reid's funeral. You have treated my request with silent contempt. I now know your moral taste. You can fill your dirty paper with notices of vile prostitutes, jockeys, gamblers, idle cricketers, and lazy loons of scullers • but you have no moral tas{e' for appl!e^ ciating such men as Fohri ("Jteid. It is w.ell,tbatyoujyive informed me of the fact. Indeed,- 1 haTsuspectSo! itfl^tffiJr before, but I.know it now from yourself. Hitherto I lmve>given|ne.ayy all our advertising to the Star, 'but heWiforfJh I will transfer our advertising to some othdr paper:" .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 121, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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140A Christian Indeed. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 121, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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