ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 1120, 8 March 1869, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

♦■■ ■ . WE DO NOT IDENTIFY OUBSEtiVKS IS ANY WAT WITH THE OPINIONS EXPBBS3ED BY OUK COBBBSFONKESTB. ■ » ■ ■ » (to thk bditob or thb southland times.) Sib — The practice of anonymous journalism, at the present day so prevalent, gives almost any one, however unworthy he may be, the power of leading, to a certain extent, public opinion. In a lecture delivered before the Young Men'a Christian Association, Nov. 27, 1866, on the subject of " True and False Guides," the present learned and accomplished Dean of Canterbury, when alluding to anonymous newspaper articles, is reported to hava said, that they were " bad guides in politics, and worse in religion " ; an<? that often the names of the writers of the articles would, if known, " be received with shouts of derision. 11 It appears to me, Sir, that the intelligent and respectable members of South* land's little community will, easily recognise in the leading articles of the " Southland News " of Thursday last and this morning, March 6th, painful and unmistakable illustrations of the truth and weight of the learned Dean's observation. — I am, &c, Chas. D. Ibvute. Invercargill, March 6, 1869.