CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 72, 26 March 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

u *** TVe are desirous' of affording every rcar-omiblc facility for Die discussion of public subjects; but it must be understood tliat we arc in 110 way responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. To the Heditor. or the Hevening Mel. Dear Sir— lf one man's lohgikal and poctikal feelinks are poplicly hinjured, it is the dooty of the poplic Press to eel these wounds. I no, Mr. Heditor, you will do thisdooty to thepoplick. Mr. Woodroffe, who docs the bloink bissiness here with proffit (not puliticaly), leefs oti to happeei to hour bockits by happeeling to our tallents. I folio this happeei, and am hinsulted. My genihus has been stabbt and crumbbled by national felinks, hintluenced by poulitikal and personcl hinterresthetnos. I re een them ccnondoriv.us. My rejected on was so — " Why is the Glass Steam Engine like certain Politicians in New Zealand." A. "Both wore made by blowing, and both are kept agoing, by making — gass." Now for that poetikal luppeel. i ave no pursonel hannimosity against the heditor of'the Colonist, ino his poitil tallowcnt is as good as mine. Ilis poitry was much admired, it was so long and so very old, beginnin witli Adam and Eve, and telling, tbat Nero was the hinventor of them Steam Hinges. But it is not write, that my poitry shuld have been hignored, and it looks like konspiring bettwin the Heditor and the bloer. i no, myne is as good as his'en, and as you ave adaun on the 'Heditor yourself, you will say so to. I hinclose my poitry on them Hinges, and may future gennurations ducide : — Poetry on them Hinges. When Albert went a wooing. He certain must bave "knowing" His Soverein was a Queen. When Woodroffe went a glassing.. And went by steam a gassing, He guess d 'twas all serene. Yours trully, C. Wildkegc.