Correspondence.
We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.
TO THE EDITOR. Sik, —I have been reading the correspondence elicited in your paper caused by a letter signed * True Britisher/ Of course any true Britisher believes in fair play, and this is one thing denied the British in the present struggle at the Cape. Before the war started Uitlanders were treated and ignored in boerdom like so many slaves, hut it was impossible for this state of things to last. Now the struggle is raging, our enemies fail even to recognise the rules of war, even a half-bree Zulu has been known to r-cognife the flegof truce. Enough, I will just have my say over this proposed boycott of the Boer (or at least he is supposed to be) in our midst. He has a very nasty way of speaking of the Britons, and parades his language in unmistakable terms before those who will listen to him. Itis my opinion he will end up in getting ducked in the Waihon, or boilod down in No. 2. On one occasion he was asked to support the Patriotic Fuud and replied, saying, he was assisting the other side. I heard the matter of boycott put very tersely the other day. I was asked : “Is it right for this man to come into Te Aroha, receive cash from a certain store for his wares—the owner of which store has a sen fighting in the Transvaal—to send the mduey to the Cape to carry on tho war against her son. —I am, etc.,
Lyddite.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Having read ‘A True Britishers’ letter, of the Bfh instant, and also tbe replies of ‘E.M.’ and ‘Quiz,’ of the T3th, published in the News, I find they are all mistaken in thinking that we have a Bopt residing in our district. We have, I believe, a Swede and a Dane. One of them might be a but not a Boer, or pven a Dutchman. If we had one here I should I : ke to ‘holland’s spat’ with him regarding the war, and show him that justice is on the Rrbish side.— I am, etc.,
G. Lovegrove, Sen Te Aroha, Feb. 14.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222051, 15 February 1900, Page 2
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