CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1053, 25 March 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

-oTO THE EDITOR. Str, —So tho County Council expect the ratepayers to give them authority to raise a loan of £7OOO. What next ? Has the Council as now constituted, or the late Council, given tire County Ratepayers the slighlest grounds for assuming that they will nut expend the desired £7OOO, in precisely the same reckless manner as the Councils iiave hitherto wasted the ratepayers money. What will the Council do with the £7OOO, if they get it ? Wily hand it over to the County Engineer, Mr Winter to spend as “ he thinks fit," precisely the same as the £lOO ho lias got to spend in improving the road over Tawhiti into Mr Haig’s run. The polling will take place on Wednesday next. Let not the ratepayers fail to record their votes against the loan. What reason have they to seek further taxation—rather “ bear tile ills we have, than fly to others that ws know not of," I am Ac., Verb. Sap. TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —-Although the Standard has changed hands, I observe that it has not changed its nature, for it maintains with unabated bitterness its well earned reputation for unscrupulous scurrillity and scandalous attacks upon respectable men and things, and the most unblushing mendacity generally. Having found that the sweeping contemnation, and unmerited attack upon the Engineer, which appeared in these columns on the 19th inst., has been resented with justifiable warmth and has recoiled with shatne upon the writer, you have done me honor to mark me out for the receipt of the foul contents of your vials of wrath, because I had the temerity to join issue with you. With regard to the gross insinuations contained in last Tuesday’s article, directed against myself, 1 can treat the writing, and the writer, with scorn and derision, for I may look with pride upon the many miles of road, and other useful works and surveys, made from my designs, and under mv superintendance here, and elsewhere, as lasting evidence in my vindication, and if need were, I can refer with complacency to many testimonials from men of standing and reputation, and to the public generally, with whom, and for whom, I served with credit. 1 have no reason to do other than look back upon my 30 years life and conduct in this Colony with satisfaction. I have done my duty as a settler, if with not much reward, at any rate in a manly and straightforward manner, I have never injured the weak, nor pandered to the strong, and have lent a helping hand to those in want upon occasion, and never kick a man when he is down, — I am, &c., O. W. Bousfield. [We insert Mr Bousfield’s letter, simply drawing his attention to the fact, that our columns, while always open to public discussion, must of necessity be closed to personal matters. This correspondence must close here. —Ed. B.]