ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 761, 18 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

(We aronot rwipunsiMe for tin- opinions exprcfwcl l.y urn i-iirr«H|Hiiiileiits.]

TO THE EDITOR OK THE EVENING MAIL.

Sut, —Ah you do not appear •willing to : let tho subjoct of the station site drop, ' whatovor your roaders may, and as I have no doubt you want something to fill in tho corner of your paper that is not entirely devoted to advertisements, you may perhaps bo tempted to insert the following* In tho tirst place I must tell vou I felt exceedingly proud on reading your remarks relative to the hairdresser s ahop opposite tho Hoyal Hotel, and if I had wantod an advertisement should be inclined to thank you very much for giving mo one in your penny runabout for nothing, lie ally, Mr. Editor, 1 begin to think that 1 shall, liko some great man that I have read about, wake up some line morning and find myßolf famous ; only the worst of it is I have never done anything to merit it, and unfortunately, 11 my popularity depended upon you it would be of a very short duration, and be entirely on the wrong side. But, B,:r, why should a cabbage grower and I be made the subject of your remarks any more than a stonemason, paperlianger, fruiterer, brewers, and publwans, who mustered in such force at that disgraceful meeting in the Volunteer Hall, iUkci who hoodwinked soma of tho ratepayers in this part of the town into Signing the requisition to the Mayor, and thxsfi packed tho meeting for their own special .pwpose. Vou must admit (unless your reporter wa.s asleep, which was not very likely nuclei tho din and noise that was then earned on) that most of the latter-named gentle-1 men wore very .d.eßiofwtrative indeed, while all I did was to propose a very sensible resolution, when no uw else had ithe courage to do so, and who chose to remain silont than faco the rowdy mo?) before them, and were well nigh leaving our worthy Mayor with 110 other alternative thai* submitting a one-sided proposition to tho one-sided and packed mooting above mentioned, which Mi Conyers and the Gov«i7>ment will have too much good sense to take any notice of, and will, I have no doubt, the jattttion 011 the best site, viz-, the in the very centre of the town, without encroaching on tho business parts, and adjacent to all [the mercantile placets or business —lianks, I'ost Office, and M».ii O/lice included—together with all the bent hotels ; and upon a block of land where, to Mpeak within compass, more than half a million lias been spent vpou the faith that the station would not be fat j."oin its present position, <uul this will i>»t *;o totally ignored by Mr Conyers. Should ifcliis desirable situation be secured, it will jsvt once accomplish the object our worthy Mayor and Councillors had in view, confer a great boon 011 the inhabitants, cu> away with that pest hole, which shows Hike ail ugly rent in the centre of a beautiful garment and in a blot and a disgrace to the town. —;l am, A c., Oiwsjyji :tui'. 110Y.U..