To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 179, 26 July 1873, Page 2

To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail.

Sik, — Permit me, through the medium of your paper, to draw public attention to an act of injustice that has been perpetrated in this morning's Examiner; an act that seems even more reprehensible when the youth and sex of the victim are considered. Under the fraudful heading " Suburban North, from our own correspondent," appears an interesting effusion, not the first of an admirable series, thit I have no hesitation in pronouncing is the work of a Suburban North school girl of very tender years. As a paterfamilias of some experience, I cannot be deceived in the infantile simplicity and ingeni )us moralising* of the writer. I have by me — wha l father of a family has not ?— too many of those charming little essays, so carefully ruled, so neatly headed, and written in so fair and round a hand, not to recognise a kindred stjleatonce. The nauwhty boys who set the swamp alight, the lawless men that phot the turkeys ; theßC touches alone would be to me more than sufficient internal evidence of the authorship. Nor are the inevitable corrections and additions of the revinng- dominie altogether wan-ing. The information wedged in as to the ownership of the school land at Hillside, and as to the unconsecmted stale of St. Andrew's Church, betray palpably enough the intervention of the riper masculine mind. But the body of the work plainly remains feminine and j uvenile, and the piracy is undeniable The only reparation that I can accept as at all sufficient, would be the publication, in the next issue of the Examiner, of the name; and age o^ the real authoress (I am quite positive as to her ► ex), together with the name of tho school where she has been taught, and to which she, as well as all the readers of the Examiner, owe so much. I am, &c , Not a Plagiarist.