TO THE EDITOR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1327, 10 July 1883, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Re communication published in your issue of the 3rd ult., from your special correspondent, I wish to give you the truth versus fiction, he (your correspondent) may be paid for filling your paper with any report he may hear than leave a vacancy in his voluminous and valuable “Ormond Letter.” “Facts are stubborn things,” fiction may do many good men injury, but the facts relative to the young man who tried to drown a dog by tieing a tin can to its tail (your readers will admit this rather a queer business altogether) and easily see the nonsense of his statement. I would advise those pestered with useless curs to adopt the plan and see how they find the result, (and refer to the Ormond correspondent). But to facts, simple and short, over this enormous piece of barbarity, the dog in question was a worthless cur infected with the distemper, had been a deal of trouble to the inhabitants of the district at large, consequently the young man, for the benefit of his fowl, his larder, and also that neighbors, thought this despised dog should be done away with. Accordingly he tied the culprit’s legs together, but like the whole of the canine species, and this brute proved himself no exception to the rule, he managed by some means or the other, after being thrown over the bank of the river in deep water, to gain the opposite side with one leg loose, the young man on perceiving this crossed over in a boat, and gave him the doom he intended, and the dog so justly deserved. In conclusion sir, your correspondent should ascertain prior to his weekly letter .to your paper, as to whether his assertions are based on facts, or frivolous talk, which he may hear from outsiders, in many cases he may injure private individuals, even in paltry asae.tions such as thia, and by so aoing render many, say at the least, obnoxious remarks as to truthfulness in the re ports made in your widely circulated paper in the district. Apologising for intruding on your valuable space. I am, &0., Fanstantinantipo. Ormond, July 9th, 1883.