ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WE DO NOT HOLD OUK3EI.VKS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OI'INTONS EXPRESSED BY OtTB CORRESPONDENTS. (To the Editor of the Invercargill Times.) Sik — Amongst things not generally known, is the solution of the following mystery. In common with many others, I purchased an issue " Extraordinary " of your contemporary, the Southland News, of Saturday. On looking over it I found that it well merited its title of extraordinary, and contained information which, to my capacity, was inexplicable. Thus, although it was dated Invercargill, Saturday morning, it purported to give information from the North, which only arrived at the Bluff on Saturday afternoon. Now, if these extraordinary issues emanated from the office of your contemporary at the time stated, it certainly seems, |as Mrs Malaprop would say, they were taking time by tbe " firelock " with a vengeance. Or is it, perhaps, that your contemporary retains the services of a clairvoyant contributor, who, while in the South, can yet tell what is doing in the North ? If you can enlighten me, you will confer a favor en many purchasers of the " Extraordinary," and on
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 13, 7 December 1863, Page 2
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181ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 13, 7 December 1863, Page 2
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