NGAPARA RIOTERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1161, 6 January 1880, Page 2

NGAPARA RIOTERS.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIIi.) Sik,- —I notice in your issue of Friday last a communication purporting to be from a Ngapara with reference to the little innocent amusement that was indulged in here on New Year's Eve.Your correspondent) Mr. Editor, must surely be a very straight-laced gentleman, or. he would not think of flying off to publish such tittle-tattle that would not. even dq credit to a washerwoman or a barber, much as'they can proverbially talk. The plfdn facts the case sire these A few of our residents did the sama as they will always do, I hope, aa long as there are sons of' Scotia in the. place to keep up the time-honored custom—namely, they went rolind with J;he customary bottle and endeavored to " first foot " their friends on New Year'B morn j but l suppose they mijist either have neglected ■ or ; forgotten your correspondent, and having been done ou|t of his " wee flrappie," to . use a Colonial phrase, he " g'ot his b&ck up." However, be that -as it may, I don't see hojw he, <?an that .they were a "ijiotoufpjob." I know they paid me a visit, and I could detect nothing riotous about them.. certainly, were jolly, if,l may so Perm it, but there > is ' a vast amount of difference riotous. Are our " leading meni " and : others to be put ojiia fboting with the Iriotera we-have befcn reading abdlit 'iri Ohristchuroh and Tiinaru] 1 do, pee any between them and our own, according tb your correspondent's letter. And as for breaking doors and throwing stones, I have "good arid reliable authority for stating that no such thing took , place. Your correspondonf goes on to enuinerate a wholo list of misdeeds, " abomiuablo iarigdago." " g(Vihfelihg. H " celling drink on Sunday, " feiqalo drunkenness," «fec., which, X think, our Jocal poljcoraan ia only top tthio top look after })imsolf if they do tuUo placp, andi tlioii it .will be.time enough fof.the.rn t.o-I>© ittftshe&befonf the eyes of the pufeiio jn'. yvtiv police; reports without tho interference of your obliging eorro«. uohdent.—l nm, sc,, », . , 4 " ! YOUIV OWN CORRESPONDENT.

... 1 • TO ritK EDITOR OK THK OAMARTTXAIIi. Sm,—,Wo, the«o-oaHed Proton*mob" of ,o«nnot allow the iuuo of the' 2»dim»t. to pais without flatly ooutimdiot* ing tho atntomonUmado thorein. On Jfew

Ere a few of the inhabitants of this township welcomed the old year out and the new year in by,going round the town, as of old, and which all must know is the usual custom. Our worthy friends who speak so well of their fellow-citizens might . think themselves favored orf the above night, as within the remembrance of the t inhabitants it was withtipt doubt the ? quietest New Year's Eve ever expenenced. - Perhaps our worthyfriendsthink that . their fellow-citizens took advantage o££he : absence of the load policeman. We hc|ie that on another occasion theirideas frill not be so confused as regards the truth, * as no windows were broken*~jrl am, 4ft , A Citizen. < TO THE EMTOB OF THE OAMAKU HAIL. Sir,—ltjjjour paper of the 2nd inst. there appeircu a ; letter commenting on tie conduct; of some of the leading men Now, Sirj permit me . to state that that part of your correspondent's letter referring to stone-throwing, abominable is entirely without foundation, forthere are several gentlemen here who can itod will bear testimony to the orderly and inoffensive manner in which ; the' rejoicings' incident' otv such occasions i passed over here. "'The other evils your correspondent complains of as exiatinghere I know nothingabout'; but allbWriie to inform him that did. his business or pocket permit him',* M" wouid' in a great measure 'eontribute tojivardstfye maintenance of. some of ,those greivances he so much complains s of.'' He 1 w i' maii welT known" here,°»nd faore- thanTonce referred to ih the correspondence of this, locality:-which • appeared in your paper during the latter pari~of ! 1879, and I doubt much if it will redound'to his honor to employ his leisure : hours slandering those among whom he ! makes a livelihood. Should this correspondent take-; it- into his head to write about ,this district at any future tipae, ,3j. trust he will confine himself to Bimple ; statement of facts and not tamper #ith the character of men who, if they be not superior to him, are ,by no means -inferior.—l am, &c., A Resident. ; Ngapara, Jan. 6,1880. I 1