ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1003, 8 July 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

• ♦ TO THE EDITOR OJ? THE OAMARU MAIL. g IB) —Allow me to notice various remarks which appeared in your paper of the 24th June, where you, through clever insinuations, show the public that there is a strong probability that Peter Aitchison has been acting_ in an unbecoming manner for the position he holds. It appears to me that you have put the split foot in it this time. You little thought that the Corporation of had possession of section CO, block IV£ Awwmoko, and has been removing therefrom the surface for repairing watei'ri'acg at the back of my house. You make it appear that I and the County Council had a dispute about this section. We had no dispute whatever. On the contrary, we hold the same opinions. You mean to inform the public that the drain was in dispute : two very different positions. Supposing Tyne-street was flooded, and Mr. Jones required to stop the water entering his premises, and his next door neighbor come upon the scene and removed Mr. Jones'bank—be it waste paper or mud, either of which is always oil hand how would Mr. Jones like to see the Corporation assist the neighbor that removed the bank, and insist that into the Gamaru Mail office was the natural course of the water. That is the treatment I received from the County Council. I hold there is a public drain in section GO, block IV., Awamoko, so do they, so does the Public Works Act, and their actions prove my remarks (see Parliamentary debate No. 27). By your own remarks I have no ricrht to irrigate Mr. Hugh Ross' land. Granted, Then I inquire what right ha the water isoming frqin the properties above me to irrigate mine. You then, inquire if a certain agriculturist has anything to do with advising the Education Board to apply for said section. I inquire, Has that agriculturist bored you with his ideas and experiences in that line for publication 1 no ; but the reverse lias been the rule. You then touch upon the Road Board elections. You appear to live by twaddle, but I. ptogoEiS j;o put a commercial''value' up6n : ydui;' remarks in this case. Before doing so, it appears to me that you have been subject to bleeding fit's mm I too cjossely pinned you last year ; or it may be the last conversation we had was bad to swallow. Be that as it may, what I propose to do is simply for a test and benefit to the Oamaru Hospital. I will stake L2O in a respectable person's hands (you doing the same) that thi3 Papaljaio subdivision of the Waitaki Roaa £oais "has' not at tfye present time one member legally elected, the opinion of Mr. Robert Stout to be decisive. Awaiting your reply, as t told you verbally that you 'in' your conceit and pleasure to yourself' ip ridiculing and abusing me on these matters, in your blindness you thought you were doing a good thing for the Oamaru ring or clique. You forgot the insnlt tendered to your various readers, as I hope they observed that never in o»ie girjgle instance did you prefer a charge agaiiist rpe. Jedburgh justice is preferable to the contemptible treatment -I have "received from your hands, for no other purpose than as I told you to write me Allow me, sir, as a comparison, to quote from the North Otago ~ Times remarks made by a Mr. Bryce in reference to political matters in the Bay of Islands. Mr. Bryce attributes " the arbitrary exercise of power and the immoral political manners " which he discloses chiefly to the absence of newspaper criticism and the non-existence of public opinion. It appears to me that there exists a good opening for a second-rate paper. As you do not believe that Peter Aitchison would do an injustice, I am therefore compelled to state that I cannot recommend you to Mr. Bryce.—lam, &c., Peter Aitchison.

Waikoura, June 28, 18J9[lf Mr. Peter Aitchison should wish to further air his eloquence oil this subject, he must seek another medium. We must protest against boring our readers with such rubbish as his to the endangerment of our circulation. —Ee. O. M.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMAIUJ MAIL. Sir, —Having a walk along the Esplanade the other day, I noticed a most disgusting heap of matter on the bank, just inside the town boundary. Indeed, it "does not need"the .eye to- distinguish that something is amiss ; the sense of smell is shocked by the naugeous effluvia which hangs round this horrible place long before one conies near it. Holding organ tightly between finger and thumb, I passed on, ray mind greatly

taken up with the conjecture whether there are or are not Corporation laws in this town. Such a sickness-spreading conglomeration should not be allowed to remain within our town. If orders were complied with, and such unsightly stuff put on the beach, I am sure that the high tides we had last week would have carried it away.—l am, &c., Apropos.