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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 712, 22 July 1878, Page 5 (Supplement)

Tuts morning's issue of our contemporary bears evidence of being intended as a grand flourish ; and to us the reading would be most interesting but that we fear that most of it was written on Sunday. Taking into c,>ti.-ideration the character of the matter, it is a subject for regret that such should be the case. Poor Tkwkko lias been roughly handled. , He is disowned by his own c >mmitte"i man. " Woter." who is a m •mber of Mr. St;:\v.vki>'.< committee, says that he is an influential individual, and just as poor Ti-:v['K::i"> is rubbing his hands with delight at the complaint, he is brought face to face, with the assertion that he is an obscure individual. F:e" Woter"—• oh fie —to cast adrifr a coil.-a-gue because he happened to get into trouble whilst exerting himself in your maso-r's interest, fn exposing corruption, we have li> en the unwitting cause of a rupture of the warmest attachment for. while •• Woter" clumsily :.t:» mpts t > bolster up a rotten cause, anil says of T:-::ri'i-:r:<>, '•We don't know yoi;." in one column, poor Tiiut'Kito in tie: next is pluming him.-.eif on being a member of Mr. Stkwa!;|>\s committee. Now. we have plainly demonstrated how necessary it is. that, in the case of bodies like Mr. Sti:\v.uh>"s Committee, if it is intended to teil a white lie, every member should be apprised of the fact. If this had been done, we should not have witnessed the somewhat curious spectacle of the Committeeman making Tempero's letter contradict " Wotek.'' Jsut, the public have been surfeited with Ti:n;-KKo. who. this morning is made by an. ingenious scribe to confess all we have said about him. " Whteh's " production in this morning's paper is a study. He is seized alternately with a spirit of sarcasm and devounee. r g:-. and sometimes gets slight iy m:xvd. VvV ;.re :• rribly put out about by ;k. v because we don't know whethfhe ha- ciee.de '• that wo are a " sapient youth." or a:: " t_:»■ ■ ; \c one." f>ut, we are eie.ou;-a'_'-_-;t by tie. "'.act that, if we are the latter, »Ve i.e.* -: youth" on our side, and a better chance than "Woter" of remedying the evil. In reply to the innuendo contained in li Woteu's " letter, that the letter signed

" I;::ou.v " was written by us, we arc glad of this opportunity of stating that we are not ashamed to express our opinions in our leading columns.