ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 213, 26 August 1862, Page 5

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

THE INCREASED PRICE OF THE "TIMES.'

{To Uie Editor of the Daily Timks.)

Sin, —From a recent notice in an impression of your paper, it appears that an increase of price haH become a matter of necessity. If this increase of price if due to an increase of demand, permit rue. as an occasional reader to compliment you. and the Ounedin press generally, on what I view as the most certain index ot increasing intelligence and healthy vitality of the commercial community of Otago. iii-t.;i:i;i!j3 have hitherto taken roads, bn fges, and cr.nals as an index of a country's internal prosperity. Flow f.ir such a standard of comparison would add lustre to the pages of Dunedin history is more than your humble eeiviint. ventures to say. My fear is tftat some future philosophical historian will be greatly puzzled on fin1 ling the fossil remains of a tattooed Maori, a bundle of llax, a pig, an-.i a member of the Town Board, imbedded in some of the principal stnets of your city, —hut for cummon decency, and as a foot-print of passing events, I hope a copy of the " Otago Daily Timea" will be found there also.

The researches of (^uetelet, in statistical science, have enabled the literary portion of civilized men to measure the intelligence of communities with a3 much accuracy as an engineer would the heights and distances of your mountain ranges. Newspapers in England have become the mere tools in too many instances of political parties, ani municipal cliques; limiting thought and social action in tho political body, to the " upper ten thousand," and the quivering "extremities of tha manuf;iftu>insr interests. your paper may be kicked out of every dirty House of Assembly, is my sincere wish ; and may the " Times," by its manly indepeud-jnee ever deserve such a reception. It will be a guarantee for your clean hands, clear head, and honest heart; an. I as such, Mr. Kditor, I will never grudge the extra price, if you furnish a genuine artiel.■. I am, Sir, With much respect, Yours obediently, J. Forsytu. Pelichet Bar, August 22, 18Q2.

Tlirough a variety of reasons, the " Traviata " has experieiiced very ill-luck in Turin, particularly in one tlicatre, so much so that a wag, not .shrinking from a pun, has observed that " La Traviata ha fatto traviare il p»vero Teatro Hoj'siui," that being the uamc of the theatre in questiou. tiM^i ggiS^i ....