ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 September 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

MUCH-NEEDED INFORMATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'jOAMARU MAIL.. Sir, —I observed in your issue of the 13th insfc. the amusement youy Timaru correspondent is enjoying at the proceedings of the Timaru Harbor Board through an innumerable oompany of captains, men who probably have earned many laurels by their successful navigation 'of the Thames, &c., in manure and ballast barges ; thus reckoning them all, up to have been only fresh-water jailors. It is the Mayor getting the tin-pot title of captain that displeases your correspondent. I can inform him that he is at sea and in a fog with regard to where the Mayor earned the tin-pot title as he calls it., 3jt was not on the river Thames in, a, manure barge. If your correspondent takes the Mayor of Timaru tp, be an old oaptain of a barge | from the Thames he must not have seen either the Thames or a barge, and if he takes him for a Gookney he is as far out in his reckoning, and the people of Timaru will not believe him. I remember Cap-* tain—or Mr.—Sutter being master of a vessel in the foreign trade from years ago. He was for ye&rai yi the China trade, also in the trade in a sailing vessel of hi a and, in 188? he. commanded the §rs,t steam whaler afloat, being the largest vessel at the time in the whaling trade, with a crew of about 100 men. Along with other master mariners he was called Captain Sutter, and a more successful commander hasseldoo* walked a ship's quarter-deck. ;?here are few Mayors, if any, in Kfew Z.ealand that have the experience about harbors that the Mayo#. of timaru possesses. It would saved New Zealand thousands of pounds'if there were more members such as the Mayor of Timaru in the Harbo? Boards to put a check on the engineers who, by their learning, too. oSton go on theory more than experience. The people o.f Tiaiaru and Mr.-Goodall will not be the losers by taking a leaf out of the Mayor's book, either with regard: to harbors or business.—l am, vto., Ji. M.

TO TUB 051'' THE OAMARU MAJL,. Sir, —I notice in yo,ur contemporary's issue of this a Ipoal with reference to myself when leaving Oamaru on Saturday, and I desire to say that the report is most incorrect. The plain facts are these :—I was driving home oh Saturday afternoon in a light vehicle, drawn by a chestnut horse, and when about opposite Mr. Baudinet's yeaidence in Wharf-street, the horse picked and put his off hind foot through the splashboard, which is very high, and on account of the height of the footboard could not get hia leg down again until unfastened from the vehicle, so losing balance cg,na,e down on his side. I then g©,4 off my seat, beeping a tight rein wi the horse all the time, and with the kind assistance of & few had the harness un-. fastenedj and polled back th.e vehicle, I holding the hprse all the time, he not having the. slighted opportunity to bound plea? of th,e vehicle and bolt, as Stated in the. Times 1 report. The vehicle was not qpset, neither were the shafts snapped. From the above facts you will see how ihoorrect the Times' report in to-day's paper is.—l am, &c., JOETf* HEKMSRSON. Kakanui, 20th Sept., ~}BSO.