ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 636, 17 May 1878, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO TIIE F.IHTOR OK THE EVENING MAIL. S.n: ; —Through the medium of your popular paper 1 desire to contradict tile statement of "A Traveller'' contained in your last night's publication, that lie could not obtain "clean and comfortable" hotel accommodation on his arrival, per Samson, from Dunedin on the lGtli inst. I, also, was a passenger on that occasion, and, within five minutes of landing from the Breakwater train, was seated before a cup of good steaming tea in the diningroom of one of the largest Oamaru hotels —a room, I may hero remark, at oiice | both " dean and comfortable." I am further prepared to say, from personal experience of all three towns, that at that early hour no better accommodation is provided either in Dunedin or Christchurch than can be procured iu at least four of the principal Oamaru hotels. The most charitable view to take of "Traveller's" letter is, that his good temper must have suffered the same fate as his stomach (i.e., been upset by the exceedingly stormy state of the weather), and that his t pis:!e was penned before recovery of his usual (J) ' equability of spirits. As to the closing sentences in " Traveller's" letter I would take the liberty- of informing him that censures on the management of our local hotels are at all " oft-mentioned also, that where an employer stands the "racket," he would be an invaluable servant indeed who grumbled at the cost of < extra conveniences for his own comfort.— I I am, Ac., Ax T'xcommeroial Travelled. -