CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 284, 26 June 1875, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Our columns are open for free discussion ; bu] we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents. :O! - y LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —>1 am just busting to say something, and these is my sentiments. Pilots is of the genus wariable; but the one I am now a writing of is neither u flesh, fish, fowl, nor good red herring,” cause why, I can’t tell. A man may be a very good skipper, good company, good singer, and all that; but that don’t make him a good pilot. The pilot to suit me is that quiet, sober, determined old salt, whose business it is to mind his own and let other people’s alone. Not a meddler, nor a half and half kind of man, who holds 20 billets, and will say in the blandest manner, “ No, Sir, I cannot take it, but there is my man; the usual fare is 2s 6d.”—Yours, &c., Observer. Sir,—ln your issue of this morning I notice a letter purporting to have been written by Pita Te Ngungu, deprecating the action of Sir D. McLean, relative to the apportionment of a block of land. The letter referred to was written by Anaru Ratapu and others without the knowledge or authority of the old chief Pita Ngungu who is one of the Government’s staunchest supporters, and who claims a thirty years’ friendship with Sir D. McLean.—l am, Ac., Argus.