ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 21 April 1863, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT HOXiD OURSELVES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY OUR CORItESPOXDENTS.

(To the Editor of the Invercargill Times.)

gin, — A most amusing letter, addressed to the Town Board by Mr Campbell, railway contractor for Tay-stroet, appeared in your paper of tho 14th. Instant, upon which I bog to mako a few remarks. I was given to understand when Mr Campbell tendered for Tay-strr3t, that be made the right honorable Town Board of Invercar^ill believe that he would put a rolling-machine on Tay-street, to make that street water-tight ; we have not seen this anxiously looked for event happen yet, but we have read that Mr C. holds the Town Board responsible. Now I shou'd like to know if the next demand will be more money for the work. Does it not look p s if he thinks that ho has caught them in their own net ? Were the specifications made by a person competent for such business ? Taking into consideration the enormous salary Mr Huntor's kind friends have awarded to him as Clerk to the Town Board, does it not demand a proper person to draw up a specification, and not a rigmarole nithoilt head or tail. If the specification had been made correctly, the Town Board would hare the power to force Mr C. to complete his contract properly, and not expose themselves to the tender mercies of Mr C., in the event of his demanding more money. Surely the Town Bo n rd have not the face to tax the public to pay what Mr C. likes to ftsk, for making ponds and holes to hold -water and mud along the public streets. Tho Town Board made a great tioiae about the improvements they intended making on Taystreet ; it is only a half inch of a street after all the bombast. Empty vessels .make more noise than those filled with precious stuff. If Mr Campbell finds that dictating and domineering will do here, such would dot do on tho Wiliiamstown liailwayj Victoria»

Yours trulv, Up Eight and Ddwtt Stbaight,