CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 18, 15 January 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our columns are open for free discussion ; but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,—By your leading article on the Bth January you imply that I wrote the paragraph in Ray Herald, .relating to? your “ mild ” attack on me as Postmaster, to this I give a most unqualified denial .and must trouble you to do the sajfie l through' bite columns of vpur paper I have pot written a “Correspondents Letter ” to any paper for the tast’ six months nor do I intend - writing any, and ifyon iyndsrstand by my treating your effusiqns with “the contempt they ifiesit’’ that I do not inten.d answering them, yo,u are perfectly correct, neither' do I intend canvassing the town for an expression of opinion as you suggest. ■ 1 do not think I am bound to answer what any one may write respecting nay conduct as Postmaster here, if you or any Other persons in Gisborne are not satisfied with of the Post Office you had better make a complaint to the Chief Postmaster at Auckland, I only hope you will have the courtesy to hand me a copy of the complaint before you send it. I shall feel obliged by your inserting this in your valuable journal.— &c., ,•_ • > C. H. Stubbb. [We accept Mr. Stubbs’ denial of a .patcmity which does ih author ho credit. We are glad to find that Mr. S. has not endeavoured to bolster himself up with an explanation that carries falsehood on the face of it, and we are sorry to find that there is one in the community who would shelter himsplf under a nom dephimeto make statements wnicK he has not courage to avow openly. But we are not going to lift the responsibility fi;om Mr. Stubbs’ shoulders. We can well understand tbhy he “ does not intend to answqt ’our effusions,” and why he will not “ canvass the town for an expression of opinion ” as to his conduct as Postmaster. He can have no possible answer to make that would not be a self-condemnation, and a “ canvass of the towfi,” would result in relegating Kim to a privacy which would incapacitate him from holding the unlucrative position of public tormentor. We may say, in reply, that we are not satisfied with Mr. Stubbs’ management of the Post Office, find in this the whole bFthe community joins with us. We shall suit oiir own convenience ns to making the “complaint" suggested by Mr. Stubbs. —Ed. P.B. Standard.]