ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1305, 12 June 1880, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

A DESPERATE CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARC MAIL. —Desperate diaesesw require desperate remedies. Mr. John Reid 13 attacked by a desperate disease, and his friends are driven to adopting a deperate remedy*. The disease takes the form of fright' at his impending defeat in the election by Mr. Jones, and the remedy resorted to takes the form of villification of the popular candidate, for the purpose of diverting the electors from their intention 0 £ voting for Mr. Reid's only opponent. Let the electors remain firm, and the employer of Dunedin cheap labor will be compelled to take a back seat. —I am, &c., Working Man.

THE ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OP THE OAMARU MAIL.

Sir, —A person writing in this mornfn rr r 3 under the misnonerof "Independent Elector " insinuates that Mr. Jones ha 3 offered me the sab-editorship of the Wi't. in the event of his election. I give the lie direct to anyone who say 3 that I ever made such a statement. No snch motives influenced me to join the majority of the Liberal electorate, sense of duty and love of liberty alone actuated my individual action in this matter. The knowledge that an attempt was being made to elect a supporter of the present Government by the employment of the most abject means known to the political world, viz., that of destroying the confidence of the Liberal party, by putting uptwocandidateson the same ticket wasmy reason for taking a firm 3tand for the right, and I am prepared to maintain the same to the end. The insinuations of this " Independent Elector" are worthy of the creature whose independence is of such a nature a3 to induce him to endeavor to injure others under the cover of a fictitious name.—Youra, etc., W. F. Ketnear.

THE HONORARIUM.

TO THE EDITOR OF I'HE OAJIARtT JIATX. J obs pc ve that Mr. Duncan Sntherlanc'j the Chairman of the County Jbtnic'-j and the particular friend of Mr. fjr' a Reid, has written a letter to the j/rth Ocago Times in support of the reduction of the honorarium. As a conntry elector, and a ratepayer under the County Council, I would like to ask Mr. Sutherland if he i 3 in favor of a reduction in all honoraria, or whether lie favore making an exception in his own particular case. Will he forego any portion of the honorarium of Ll5O voted to him by the County Council for doing heaven and the Connty Councillors only know what?—l am, &c.,

Cocstt Elector.

PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OA3LAP.C HAIL.

Sip.,—Amidst all the outcry against the property tax and its provisions, I do feel aarpriied that the citizens of Oamaru have not complained of the injustice done to such, an important centre by making Titnani the place where all objections against valuations must be heard. Oamaru should have had a Deputy-Commissioner, and it is here where all errors and mistakes should be rectified. Economy may {lave induced the Government to make limaru the centre of the district, but it will be found to be a false economy, while at the same time it will bs felt as a grievous burden by the tax-payer. —lam, &e. r " A CIXXZEX. THE UNTRUTHS OF " TRUTH." TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. Sce, —With all deference to the writer of the letter signed " Truth" in this morning's issue of your contemporary, I am prepared (q prove if required that Mr. Roberts informed an intimate friend that he had made np Li 3 mind to withdraw from the contest, and that he farther stated he would be glad it Ilia friend wonld communicate his decision ,to Mr. Jones, which was done in good faith. Immediately afterwards appeared Mr. Jones's advertisemeut offering himself as a candidate. The above statement should surely be sufficient to absolve Mr. Jones from any promise to Mr. Roberts. It is only fair that truths and untruths shoulcl be creilited to the proper individuals. I fail to see any blame or falsehood to be attached to Mr. Jones in this matter.

Regarding the letter signed " Fair Play }t only requires scanning to show that the writer is dofpg his ntmo3t to throw duat in fee eyes of the electors. —I am &c. Justice. Mrs. satry sturdy ox the election. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OA3IARC MAIL. Deer Mister Edditer, —I'm not won o' tyem sort o T wimb? A 3 i 3 called bine stokk?ns, M would like to be men, and writes to the papers on pollytik3, religin, an' the like; out wen I sees a man ritin an' tryin to make

heleve e's a woman, it kinder liurt3 mi Now, in your paper as coomed to ■K?r ouae last Satirday nite, I twigged won • them very chaps callin iaaelf Hannie, and liotin nursery rimes, an replyin to another chap a3 was " poor but honest." My 'usband, M ia a pollytishin, red 'is letter, of wich this Hannie cov sez was rit by the Edditer 'isself wd Grif (my usband is a taf, 'e is). sez r e don't care hoo rot it, but it was sense and rezin, and spoke 'is own mind entirely. Now, Mister Edditer, I'se bin a ousemade, Ha' nose *ow them letters like Hannie's is rifc. Firat ov all, ther's invitashiq3 to be seat out, then kerriges kum ful ov swells Wtl shabby-jinteel jeenieses, then the mennyals, as they cals em, gets np the "spredd," then, lor, don't the claret and fort fiy round reglar lokkle opabin ; then Rfter that's dun the wimin gos to try the P«anna, and a ran down other wimin as don't appen to be thare; and Mr. R , fcegg patding, Mr. Bigbng gos with 'iz swels and ahabbv-jipteel to the library, *er tjje letter iz got np, ko-operate like. Then the shabby-jinteel jeenieses, hoo must be Tory to get in with the nobs, get arf a baskin in the smyles ov the Miss Bigbugs. Grif aez them mvitashuna to te will be the Wdeat argymint, Mister Jones will have to fite agin; and in regli to Hannie, 'e sez enny man goin to Parlamint ud need to be pure l&e angila or they'd get bribed, aa enny

membir hool tarn for this ere 'All gets a slice Hf this big lonn. 'E (Grif, that is) is goin in for Mister Jones, and 'e sez 'e thinks this Mister Reid wonld, in the onse, be in a false posisbin reprizentin the mob, as them big coves calls bokatoos and tradesmen and ns poor critters as work 'ard. Cos this ere Reid's got a big estait to keep Sir George from puttin on inqnizzitoryal taxes on, so that they mite not kum off pore pepil. And mebby Mister Reid mite go in for a good Peakfeo Swamp wen "e gets Linkinahire fanners out ennf to eze 'im of 'iz bonme Elderslie, at say Lls an akir awl over.— Yonrs as sined above. S : S. P.S.—My lee til gal's away at servis. If she wer at ome, she wood corekt awl mi bad. spelin. She's sich a clever skoler, and quite pelite, wich makes me think we pore foks wood make as fine swels as the 'iest on em, like the potter's clay, wich is maade to onner and disoner. But if my darter cooms to be un, I ope she nevir be like them upstarts ere as i 3 got I noshins an sauce an state ennf for the Kan of Tartary, eksept wen they wants the mob's votes to put em in Parlamint; then, can't they kum it sweet? Mister Edditer, I can't rite ard cnuf agin cm ; but I'd like to give em a talkin. I was the only the only won as evir licked Mother Boaram.—Yours agen. S. S.