Correspondence.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222047, 6 February 1900, Page 2

Correspondence.

We do not hold ourselyes responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— -From some cause or other the correspondence the newspapers have become of ljfte very ing reading, owing, I think, to the fact of the volunteer spirit being more free from the hackneyed style of most newspaper writers who I believe leave their brains at home best girl, being compelled to wi&e in a modified careful strain. my pen perilously near prescribed on two or three occasions, I take cognisance of. the writings of others, so ‘ Forty-five,’ * Forty-six, and the letters of our two residents appearing in your columns have Attention at my hands. Over Vii&rty-five’s ’ letter my brain clouded to seethe subject of a bowling green revised, after the Domain Board had settled, I believe, tb make one, with' the other improvements projected in the ground, when their next ship came home in the shape of a Government draft. If that old writer requires a mild but exhilarating exercise in the meantime let hint go into the bush, with a thin suit of clothes on, and kill mosquitoes as they settle upon him. He will find it a lovely performance, sufficent for the time being. My observations on the culvert contract were that without doubt in the peraonal presence of the engineer the work was being properly done, but with a perfect ihsregard the time it would take, ba™ conc:uded that if the backers of the contract botk sound practical business men, were satisfied, it . was their theirs alone. Our host of the Hot

Springs takes up the cudgels properly, for all businesses in Te Aroha dependant on visitors are very precarious, the expenses are always there, the income uncertain. „ But the course pftfcL, posed by our worthy engineer, a libel 1 - suit, is, I consider, of all legal proceedings the most brain-destroyingyy.. unsatisfactory, inconclusive • course it?’

is possib’ e for a man to take, an evidence of inferiority, a course whre more than in any other proceeding the couplet is true : ‘ A shell and a shell for thee, but the oyster is the lawyer’s fee,’ for a man might, after tt ii i °

long harassing time and cross questioning in the witness box, with all his. mental working machinery throwu out of gear, come off with Is damages, each side to pay their own costs. Elevation of manner is the only successful means, combined with a selfr**. knowledge you have acted rightly, to combat.the squibs aud crackers of the foolishly intrusive.—l am, etc.,

H. J. Hawkins. _>•