ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 28, 11 January 1864, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT HOLD OURSELVES RESPONSIBLE ' TOR THE OI'INIOSS EXPRESSED BY OUB 1 CORRESPONDENTS. (To the Editor of the Invercargill Times.) Pitt— Having heard a great talk about Mr T.iatclier's en'ert -inments iu this town, and b?in_j curious to bear what sort it was, I went one evening last week to partake of that pleasure, and may say that I was never rnoie disgusted when I heard songs which brought the names of the most respectable people i>\ this Province into ridicule, contempt, and disrepute, even casting reflections on their character. Now, Sir, knowing that your journal is a free and indepenu at one, and that you are ever viHing to take up the cudgels in defence of the right, I 'Would endeavor to draw the attention ofthit talentel{?) gentleman to the tact that were he to confine himself to the truth, and the truth only, and not— as he did in one of his songs — give out that he saw a well-knowr gentleman, whose position in society he named, drunk, f.nd so on, he would bo much mor*i likely to win the public favor; and 1 am sure materially increase the profits of his entertainment if he v ould use less personality, and confine himself more to pure comic songs which have no reference to any one in particular, and not sing such as only please the hybrid taste of those who cannot appreciate anything butter. Hoping that the abore gentleman will take the hint given iu this letter, I am, Sir, Yours, &c, J. M. S. Invercargill, 9th January, 1864.