CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 7 April 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do oulselvcs responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents]. ;o;——— NEWSPAPER LOGIC. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As a native of the Emerald Isle, 1 naturally reak with some eagerness a leading article in yciir Contemporary’s issue of Thursday evening, headed “ Breakers Ahead '.’ I read it patiently, but failed in the first place to find any reference to “ Breakers Ahead," after I got past the headline. This by the wav, however. What I want to draw attention to is the Editor’s logic. He refers at lengthj’to the lawlessness of using a number of sentences that have done duty for centuries in earning a cruHt for penny-a-liners, and theft draws a comparison between the tiirbulent Irish people and inhabitants of Scot’ Und and Walefi. Then he draws the moral. Here arte his own words i “ They (the Welsh and Scotch) live at PEACE, bitt they nevertheless (viz., I presume, becatiCe they live at P’-aue) endure the same galling disabilities at the present tlmfe as those of Ireland. From this I, accepting the writer as a leader of public opinion (of course, all editors are such), am led to understand that whether I follow the example of the blood thirsty Irish, or that of the peaceful Scot and plodding Welshman, the result is the same. therefore) should I not enjoy the pleasure of allowing my national feelings full fling, giving a “bating,” and taking one whenever opportunity offers, killing a landlord, or cutting the taiU off my enemy’s cattle, and so forth, seeing the reward is the same, and that I shall continue to occupy the same social position as the inhabitants of Scotland and Wales ? Why not ? lam truly thankful to that Editor for showing mo that I can do all these things without being any worse thought of by my fellow mortals. In the same paper I read the following extraordinary item of intelligence “ Washington, April B.—A company of troops is despatched against the Apache Indiaas, in New Mexico, and Arizona has fallen into an ambuscade and been totally annihilated." How the remainder of the Continent must have trembled when the fall took place. I have a friend who recently bought some 15,000 acres of land in Arizona, and I am anxiously waiting to hear whether he went into the ambuscade also. If you receive any intelligence on the subject, a cony will be thankfully received by your truly, Irish Patriot. Ormond, sth April. 1883. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Do you thifik the Borough Council ever intend io improve that part of Peel street between Gladstone Road and the Wh&taupoko Bridge ? As it is at present, these dark nights, persons run great risk of breaking their legs in crossing the street. On the left-hand side there is’anopen gutter, and already more than one pedestrian has come to grief. There is no lamp to shed its light upon the existing state of the place I refer to. It is sincerely to be hoped that the Borough Council will instruct their Engineer to do something in the matter. The outlay need not be much, while a lamp at one of the corners would indeed be a boon.—l am, etc., Ratepayer.