PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5337, 6 May 1878, Page 3

PALMERSTON NORTH.

ftfBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) . 1 May 2. The Bank of Australasia has just opened a branch at Feildingi for the convenience of their customers in that town, who heretofore have had to make periodical visits to Palmerston to transact their banking business. Mr. St. Paul is the agent in charge. . . • # . ' Messrs. Thynne of Foxton and Linton of Palmerston have gone into partnership as commission agents, &c, This will form another connecting-link between the two placeSj as they will have offices in both towns. £6OO has been borrowed in Wellington by the Corporation to improve the borough reserve, which will probably soon he ready for leasing an small farm sections. Some of the £25 debentures for general purposes have also been taken up in Wanganui and elsewhere. The Government have agreed to accept £IOO in payment for the land upon which the Foresters* Hall is built, and to transfer it to,trustees. : I believe that matters will now be put upon a more satisfactory footing with regard to this building,-which does duty as a theatre, and which, with a comparatively slight additional expense, might be made a very good one. The hospital has received its first patient, a ; young man who is suffering from erysipelas in both legs, brought on by exposure. .There axe, however, no fittings 1 or even beds in the' building as yet, and I fear,that the accommo-; elation and comforts must he of the most primi-. tive kind.' ‘ '' ''

I notice that the writer of “ Overland to • Wanganui/* in the first-issue of a Wellingtonpaper, has fallen into the common error that : the white mound at Waikanae is “composed entirely of pipi-shells,” and adds, “but how they came there even Maori tradition fails to account for.” Hadthewriter of the article taken the trouble to examine the mound, he would have found that it is merely a large sandhill covered with a layer of pipi-shells. The explanation of how they came there is simply that the Maoris when the mosquitoes are numerous take the pipis to'the top of the sandhill, to get the benefit of the breeze, so that they can eat them in peace. In yesterday’s' issue of the local journal, the editor, instead of even attempting to refute my remarks,, contained in yours of the 28th uifc., on his abuse of “ our own correspondents/’ replies by a personal attack on myself. He, however, evidently did not first take the trouble to read those remarks or he would have seen that I did not offer him any advice, well knowing, that it would be useless to anyone sp entirely convinced of his own perfection. I fear that the proprietors of the Manawatu, Times may findthat an editor can be rather a dear article, even if he worked for the stipend accredited to .“ our own correspondents” by the “thunderer” of that paper, viz., “nothing,” should the columns continue to be filled with bad grammar and construction, such as “a hotel,” “ he is a shining light and most anxious should .not be .placed.under a bushel/-- although that will be a far way off of meeting the requirements/* “the. Press Agentic wires/*' arid numerous others which I have not space to quote; poetry cribbed wholesale, and signed by the editor as his own composition, such as “ The Printer’s Devil,” from Mr. A. Sala; and gross personal abuse in lieu of argument, as has lately been the case, and for allof which there can heonlyone excuse. Strangely enough, he uses as his strongest denunciation of‘those 'he; attacks the accusation that one and all candidates for the editorial.chair which he now occupies, Ab he aeemsfondof Latin quotationa—of which, from the way he applies them,: he is evidently ignorant of. the meaning—l will conclude by leaving him to find out the moral conveyed by nemo me impune lacessit.