CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 180, 21 July 1875, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

* fL^ c ? rc csiro «s of affording every reasonable facility for Die discussion ot public subjects; but n must be understood that we are in no way pendent th ° opinioUß expressed by corresTo the Editor ov the « Evening Mail ' Sir — Tour correspondent " Justitia '' comments on the statement made in this morning's Colonist that Mr Sunley was plucked because there were two mistakes in his Latin paper, and suggests that the Committee should publish it in order to satisfy the public. From what source the informant of the Colonist derived his information I knownot, but most probably he confounded the Latin with the Algebra paper, in which there were two slight errors made in transcribing the problems from the waste sheet on which they were worked. But with respect to the Latin paper there might have been more mistakes than I wot of, it being the first paper given me to answer, and I own to having felt a considerable degree of nervousness — not unnatural in a man having to deal with a study that he has abandoned for over twenty years. However, as I have now had leisure to look the subject up a little, I doubt not, that should I again become an applicant, I shall be able to handle it with a greater amount of confidence., I do not in the slightest degree call i/ question the fairness of the Examiners, but I think that they might, have accorded me a little more leniency, the more so that, but for my remonstrance, it was the intention of the Local Committee to have banished the study of Latin altogether from the school. Moreover, I believe it to be customary that when a candidate passes creditably in two subjects out of three, and evinces some knowledge of the third, not to withhold from him his certificated I am, &c, X, M. Stole r. Nelson, July 21. This ia the style of writing occasionally adopted by the Auckland Stat:— " We think that it will be admitted that none but a blackguard at heart and deed could write and publish the following.*' It continues:— ■•• The cowardly way in which this base insinuation is put ia characteristic of the tuft hunting sycophant that does the editorial* ot the ffawke's Bay Herald. He has not pluck to father a « rumor' which 4s solely. an emanation of his own filthy brainy and his statement of which produces an irrespreflsible tingling in the foe of one's boot. The Hawkes* Bay Herald has long been infamous throughout the colony as the organ of a ring that has for years been systematically swindling the Natives of Hawke's Bay out of their lands. The kind of fame the truckling editor of the flawke'a Bay Herald eDjoya through crawling at the fest and licking the toea of those who are good to him, makes one feel angry at tbe impudence of such a fellow presuming to challenge comparison. The closing paragraph in the article of this skunk of journalism is more impudent still." The Otago Guardian is very warm on Mr. Vogel's detractors. Ac fehe ass in the fable (says our contemporary) assailed (he dying lion, even so have these persona mustered sufficient courage to ftssul the eick and absent Premier. From the literary snob who asserted that Mr Yogel came to Dunedin to open a tobacco shop io the Arcade, to the journalistic ruffiau who plainly intimated that he had been handsomely paid by the Mesars Rothschild for negotiating the loan through their house,fthere has not been a larrikin connectedfwith the Press but has thrown more or lees mud at the absent man. Falsehood after falsehood has been transmitted by post and wired by teregraph, from one end of New Zealand to the other, and has afforded ready texts for the venal writers of a corrupt Presa to dilate upon and amplify. » The Lyell Argus saya the road aectioDS thrown up by R. M'Combes have been relet by the Provincial Secretary at the following prices: — No 1, 25^ chains, £7 per chain; No 2, 30 chains, £8 per chain; No 3, 25 chains, at £9 10i per chain ; No 4, 26 chains. £8 ; No 5, 30 chains, £7 5s ; No 6, 20 chains, £12 10i; No- 7, 25 chnine, at £9 10s. Mtssrs Lightfoot and Turner are now engaged \m laying off about throe miles, which ia the only gap between Nelson and Weßtport as yet uncontracted for. Our contemporary, the Southland Times, is rather severe upon the Waikalo Times. This U what it says :— " Some people are great neology — have, io fact a mania, for inventing new words, mostly silly «nd absurd in their character. The IVaikalo Times of a late date, has in its telegraphic columns a number of clippings — newain briefunder the heading-s>f ' Sciseorgramp •'— k a word that ought toquolify its inven--tor for penal servitude." t An Engliah paper furnishes the following amuaiug paragraph : " A Darwininian philosopher was brought before a Justice on a charge of drunkenness. In defence he aaid, ' Yonr Worship, I am a Darwinian, and I have, I think, discovered the origin of my unfortunate tendency. One of my forefathers was an anthropoid of a curious turn of mind. One morning about 4,391,636 b.g., he was looking over hie stores of cocolinuts, when he picked up oue for hia breakfast in which the milk had fermented. He drank the liquor and got gloriouaiy drunk, and cv e r afterwards he always kept his cocoanuts till fermentation took plaae. Judge, than, whether a

tendency handed through innumerabla ancestors should not be taken in my defence.' Casting a sarcastic look at the prisoner, the Justice Baid, 'lain aorry that tho peculiar arrangement of the atoms of the star dust resulted in giving me a disposition to sentence you to pay a Gna of 5s and costs." By the last English mail, a journeyman shoero»ker, at Waimate, is reported by the Tribune to have received intimation that £4000 had been left to him by an uncle. (For remainder of News see fourth page.)