CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 274, 22 May 1875, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE BDITOB. Sib, —I was glad to see that in your'last issue you did not countenance the idea of playing at sailors which the dear harmless editor of the Herald seems so anxious to have carried out, when he speaks of forming a Naval Brigade. If what I hear is correct (and I move about a little bit) the yarn that the Gisborne Boating Club would form the nucleus of a toy Blue Jacket Company was nothing more than a hoax. Simple and inexperienced, though possessing a wonderful opinion of his own abilities as a literary artist, of course the “ Duffer ” eargerly swallowed the intelligence, and exercised his unexampled powers in manufacturing a local—Poor editor! Poor intellect 1 But you are not the only one who has had a laugh at his expense, I don’t want to be hard on the young man, but I must say that it comes well from him in the same issue to chronicle the practical jokes of those who beautifully sold the intending passengers per Go-a-head, when he failed to put hi< own “ sell” under the same heading. But perhaps he has found it out since. Since writing the above,! have been shewn that in this day’s Herald an individual who signs himself “ VV.F.C,” imagines you have trodden on the tail of his coat. I wonder how he would feel if it were a long-tailed brass bound navy blue one, and anyone chanced to tread on it at pop-gun practice ? I fear he’d hide himself under a more substantial cover than a nom deplume.— Yours &c., Pop Gcn.