THE BAND PRESENTATION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2514, 11 April 1881, Page 2

THE BAND PRESENTATION.

SECOND EDITION

[TO THE EDITOR. I Sir,— ln tlie columns of your morning contemporary there appears a letter which for bad taste and ultra selfishness is as yet unsurpassed. There are some men who are never happy unless they get or make continual opportunities for carping (“ nagging is, I believe, the colonial word for it) and doing their very best to render other people thoroughly uncomfortable or unhappy. Of such is the correspondent who styles himself “Musician.” I am very sure, sir, that if any gentleman in the locality had been dining or entertaining a celebrity or someone with a title, and had employed a band to play selections on his lawn during the evening in order to add to the pleasure of his guests, “ Musician ” would have devoted his best energies towards obtaining an entrance amongst the select few within the enclosure rather than cavilling at what was to most neighbors, bystanders and passersby a great and unwonted treat. The whole effusion seems to me, Sir, to vouch for the truth of the statement made by a learned and astute judge who said that too much fat Leicester mutton was making indigestion and dyspepsia only too prevalent in our midst. —I am, &c.,

J.A.W