CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 69, 12 July 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 thb bditob of thb standard.

Sib, —“ People that live in glass houses should not throw stones.”

In reference to the “ query ” of “ Scholastic,” printed in your last Saturday’s issue, I beg leave to inform you that I very much regret you should have become so muddled over the common interpretation of the demonstrative these; the difficulty seems to have arisen either from temporary mental obtuseness on your own part, or of vicious perverseness on the part of your factotum the “devil who has confused the words of the “ Minute ” with the Board’s private instructions to the Secretary.

To prevent the public (or that portion of it represented by yourself and “Scholastic” being misled for the future, and to spare yourself much arduous labor, it is my intention from this time to retain the rough minutes in my own possession : so that you will now only have to copy the the revised minutes from the Minute Book, which is always on the Board-room table. The insertion of these in your next issue will oblige.—Yours very considerately William D. Lysnab, Secretary to the Poverty Bay Highway Board. Gisborne, July 7, 1873. [The above polite effusion will sufficiently condemn itself without any assistance on our part. Mr. Lysnar has fallen into the common error of identifying us with the opinions of our correspondents; and, as this is so, we feel bound to say the Secretary has made out a good case against himself. We do not, for one moment, believe that Mr. Lysnar intended an ungrammatical expression; but he cannot escape from the effect the plural pronoun “ these ” has upon the foregoing items to which “ Scholastic ” alluded ; and he now endorses the correctness of this view of the matter by stating the Board gave him “ private instructions ” to send “ these ” —Captain Read, stock-yard, fees, wharf, and all—to the Superintendent!—Ed. P.B.S.'}