CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 6 July 1895, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Under no circumstances whatever is the Editor responsible for matter contained in correspondence.] (to the Editor.] Sir —Persona]ly I should have treated Mr Coe’s letter in your issue °&f the 14th ult. with the neglect I thought it deserved, but my mates have requested me to answer it. Mr Coe and his mates reached our camp as we- were returning to work after dinner. They were asked if they were right for tucker and said they were, they wished only some tea. They were told to sling their billy and make it, but apparently Mr Coe expected one of us to stay home idle and make his tea for him. He complains also of being sent back to a ready pitched tent, and enlarges on his hardships in sleeping on the floor of a tent without a fly. The tent contained a double bunk in which two men had slept for months. If he .objected to share a bunk with another he had ample time and opportunity to fix up another, and also to replace'the fly as you could not, if you hunted for a twelvemonth, find a place where nikau and mangamanga are more disgustingly abundant. There was a she'd in front of the tent and any quantity of Ary wood available for a fire all night within six feet of his toes, but he preferred chopping, green cedar. It seems to me that he must have expected a hotel in the bush, with spring mattresses, hot water laid on, and similar luxuries. The most helpless creature going ought to have been capable of making himself luxuriously comfortable under his circumstances, but he need not rush into print and growl at not having all the appliances of the Grand Hotel ready at command.—l am, etc.,

J. Yereicer Bindon,