CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 188, 6 August 1878, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor op the 'Evening Mah,,i

Sir.— The truth of the adage that a dead fish will go with the stream, while it takes a living one to face it, is verified in my case. I am an old man, one of the pioneers of this place, and certainly the longest resident in Nelson, having landed here from the "Will Watch" in 18« and not left tbe shore since. So you see that I have shared in all the ups and downs of Nelson from its infancy. And the old man is not dead yet. But it will be seen by your advertising columns, that his Httle all is doomed to the

fall of the hammer to-morrow j right or wr °ng, just or unjust, the adb Is legalised, and therefore must be right so fur. But yoli know sirj that because a thing is legal it floes not follow that it is aisfci just; for instance, the murderer Sulllvah has a ifefjal right to live, but 1 1 Question if any of your traders would ajjply the word "just" to it. Hehce.the abalpgy. No bhb' can dispiite the legal right of the harHnier, but, pending the Question raised by me in the Resideut Magistrate's Court a fortnight before, who .will come fdrword tind say that it is Just ? In my next ,1 shall endeavor to show that at least some or tile proceedings, in th'is case have not been strictly legal, and by so doing show lhat I am an injured man. Yours &c , Thomas Butler. The Baths, Hardy -street, Nelson, August 6, 1878. To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir— We in Wakefieid have been before the public a good deal lately, but let U3 have a little more. We have got nd of the schoolmaster, Registrar, Insurance Agent, Postmaster, &c; we have presented him with, a chain, and hs is gone. According to your Saturday's paper, we are to have a Station Master and Telegraphist, and, according to the Governor's speech, we are to have amalgamation of offices, and, according to Sir George Grey, manhood suffrage, &c , but we certainly never expected that such important offices as the Post and llegistnir's should be placed in the hands of minors and lodgers, but such is the fact. The sooner we gat what we asked for the belter, viz , a Stationmaster, Telegraphist, Postmaster, and Registrar, all combined, with a great saving to the Government, and a boon to the settlers. I I am, &c, Amalgamation.