CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1349, 30 August 1883, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents]. “ HERALD ” CORRESPONDENTS. [to the editor.] Sir— l wish you would publish the enclosed letter for me. I sent it enclosed to the Editor of the “Herald,' 1 but Mr Chrisp stated to me that he would not publish it in his valuable (?) paper for two reasons, and really wanted me to bet him £5 as to certain matters referred to in my letter.—l am, 4c., Old Volunteer, To the Editor oi the Poverty Bay Herald. H Sir—Some time since I wrote a letter to you for insertion in your paper, I did not t sign my name, but handed it to you on a k separate sheet as private and confidential, comply with one of your rules as to “ Well, sir, you did not insert the letter, made some unasked-for editorial reas to the letter, and why you would •not publish it. Very good. I heard or said more about it until last night, when to my great astonishment one of the gentlemen referred to in my letter complained of my having written it; says he is acquainted with, not only the writer’s name, but the contents of this unpublished letter. I ask, sir, where did he get his information ? Why* from you or your office, which cannot hold water, much less a correspondent's name. Why the very essence of newspaper running is secrecy on all matters, more especially as to writers’ names ; but, I suppose it serves me right, for patronising, as the Standard says, ‘ The Evening Scrap-book and Toad-eaters’ Chronicle.’ “ I would let the matter drop where it is, but I wish all the residents of Poverty Bay who read your paper to know from my recent experience, that they cannot rely on privacy «nd confidence regarding their cor. respondence on matters entrusted to your J paper for insertion, which will, 1 am sure, bring its own reward to the proprietors. “Trusting you will insert this, as I have obeyed the journalistic etiquette of replying in the paper of which I complain.—l am, &c., Old Volunteer. “P.S.—I would sign my name to this, but cannot for private reasons, of which you are already acquainted.”