ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 670, 15 May 1867, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WB DO NOT IDENTIFY OTTESEEVBa. tS ANT WAT WITH THB OPINIONS EXPBEfIBEir BY OXTS; . CORRESPONDENTS. , . . -, „-, ' ♦ ■ -.3,,*.:, ' (TO THH BDITOB OP THE SOUTHLAND TIKES.) i . • Sib,— ln ' the remarks ; your " Specia^ Correspondent" makes on Riverton in last Friday's impression, he falls into a; gross mistake, which I wieh to correct.; Writing of the absence of " local institu-i tibnsj" he adds, and " what" surprised .me | •most of all, there is no school.* For the; size of the town this is jari anomaly -I have never' beVore witnessed. In any other place visited: in this, or other colonies,' riumbering a population equal to that _o£ Eivertonj there has been found two or; more academical institutions. Here there is none." Such a statement cannot but shock every Eiyertonian who comes across it. ; and how, your " Special-Cor-respondent" should rush at such a conclusion must be ; a little puzzlingi to them. If he had made any enquiry, on the subject he _cbuld_ easfly have: ascertained that we not bnlyTiave & pubKc! school, but one well (attended and efficiently conducted. By inserting thei above iv your next issue, you will much oblige, sir, „ ; «_»v Yours &c, ' Johit Pateesop;. Eiverton, Ij3th May, 1867.

(TO EDITOB 0? THB SOTTTHIiAin) TIMES.) ; Sib,— On lbdking over " your . special correspondent's remarks of the town of Kiverton,' I notice one gross mistake concerning the want-of schools. I may mention for your, information that the Government School has never been closed, although conducted for the| last two years* without any aid, save the fees paid by the parents. 7 This school has from 40 to s>o scholars, that attend regularly, and there is also: another private school in the town, for young ladies. .; .-.:. ,;. .■.-., I am at a loss to know how your correspondent could hay© obtained such information^ on so' important an element as the edcuation of the children in this town. . , ; Trusting you will take the earliest opportunity, of coirectmg this error. — I remain, yours &c, .-.;;.. ." ; Thomas Austin. - "Biver|on, B/Tay 13th, 1^67. , : <[our .reporter states that he made several, inquiries relative to the subject of Education, but that the invariable reply "was that'therff were "ho schools open." We are sorry -that the mistake should have occurred, and have to thank our Eiverton correspondents for their information.—-^. 8. T.~]