ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 962, 20 May 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. Sir, —Truly we in Livingstone might be likened to "The Happy Family." We never fall out and. call each other had names. Oh, no, not at all. We certainly have our little differences—say about four public growls each week ; but then they are such a change, and are so really interesting through the way that the various parties engaged are jumbled together, that the whole affair to an onlooker is really amusing. The great squabble just now is between the School Committee and several parents who are declining to send their children to school. The Committee have taken one of our most respectable residents before the Magistrate to compel him to send his child to the school. Rather than submit to this piece of interference he has sent his child away to the Kyeburn School, and, as the gentleman referred to is much respected here, several parents have taken up cudgels in his favor, and the row is waxing what my friend Bob calls sultry. I hear that several letters of complaint have been sent to the Committee, whether just ones or not it is beyond my poor skill to tell. Any way, there appears to be any amount of ill feeling on both sides. Then, again, we have a few lively individuals among us, who call themselves a something Committee. They meet occasionally, and, like the three historical tailors, fancy they are the very grit and essence of wisdom. Some of their resolutions are absurd, others second-class ; to wit, one of their great guns had the impudence to write that our respected Warder, by what they call his leaning, defeated justice. Verily the talents of some of our wiseacres should be exhibited in a more appreciative place. I for one wish they were there. We might then have more good feeling and less bickering. I am, &c., Timon.