A "DARK" HORSE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 89, 5 November 1879, Page 2

A "DARK" HORSE.

Some persona are under the impression that an editor of a paper lives m a kind of toundane elyaiuui, doing nothing but reading the paper* by day, and attending balls, concerts, and parties by night. Alas! for the falsity of suoh a supposition. ' The editor of the Times has handed me the following letter which he received yesterday, which I imagine will be sufficient to convince the most sceptical that it is not all "• beer and skittles " with the profession. I print the document verbatmn et literatim, with orthography and capitals inviolately followed, but the epistle is robbed of half its charm by mj inability to reproduce the ealijjraphy.— ? " "Wellington, Ist Nov., 79. " To the editor of the iEanawatu Times. " Sur as you have thought proper to stigmitise Me m your paper as Regards an order I gave .to Malcom and Russells agent for titqber an 4 for which I Duly settled with Mr. Malcom by a Bromesry No.te Due on the 14th February next aud of which i am" m hopes of meeting at that Date i beg to tell you that as the case Will be herd m the R.M. fiqrt within, a fortnite i shall be able .to, prove that your statement's a, 3} — — dlie excus Me for plain speaking. * --• "lain, &c., . ' "W..T. Daw?, . , '^uildeiy "Wanganui. ?> Mr. Dark had not the consideration for the editor's feelings that I have for those of your readers, as the word represented by the dash was written m full, with as pugnacious a looking D as it was m the power of the writer to construct. The cream of the joke is, however, that all this terrible 1 wrath has been poured out una'vailingly, as the editor has not the remotest idea to what transaction his irate correspondent takes exception. It is quite evident that the Wanganui builder has been doing something naughty, and as every " tliief doth fear ' each bush an officer," ha.s taken to himself , some remark possibly intended for another. I shall watch the "KM. Oort for the next fortnite," m order to find out what the polite Dark is driving at, when, possibly a " light " will be thrown on the, subject.