Correspondence.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 124, 28 December 1858, Page 3

Correspondence.

TO" DR. GREENWOOD. (Per favor cf the Colonist:) [ •Sir, .—ln your capacity of Editor of the 'Nelson you take the part of champion to Mr. Gibbs—a character more properly belonging to your position as his accredited agent— •and you have gone the length of accusing -mel of making an unfounded assertion,yin saying :that Mr. Gibbs was never on the Dun Mountain in his life, and only once even ever near it. You say, -in the leading article of Saturday last, " it was within your own knowledge that within ■a very few days after his arrival he had gone •up by himself to the mine." Be it so. That ■does not invalidate ray assertion that he was •never near the Dun Mountain but once. The time you speak of is the time I speak of, the only difference being that I added he was accompanied by Mr. Hackett. If he did not go away with Mr. Haokett became back with him; and in his report he -speaks of Mr. Hackett •pointing out the line of railway. You do not pretend to say he was there twice or oftener, but you have recourse to the disingenuous •deception of leading your readers to that conclusion, and to throwing discredit on all I say. You make use also of the term, "he had gone >up to ihe mine." It is thereby evident you do not know what you are talking about. Mr. 'Gibbs went to "the Wind Trap Gully only, and that does not constitute the mine, and, as I ;have already said, is only at the foot of the ■mountain, and mile 3 from .where the twelve tons of ore were got out. Take care of the " recoil," Dr. Greenwood. W. LONG WREY. To the Editor of the Colonist. Sir,—Will you kindly allow rae to request the sub-editor of the Examiner to ask the Secretary of the Board of Works to give information to the local intelligericer of the Examiner, who is always so ready in giving it to the public on similar matters, why part ofthe new so-called culvert is shored up, and whether the scientific portion of the Board consider a bed of shingle to be a good foundation for a brick built culvert. Also, should a new one be necessary, whether another 25 per cent, on the peuny rate will be deemed needful. " That which, is everybody's business is (nobody's." > Yours, &c, -'■""* .'.' .'. ' ENGINEER. The Situation of the Garden of Eben.—l {Cuthberth Bede) was talking with a respectable •old couple, when the wife suddenly asked me, " Where was the garden of Eden, Sir V Taken by surprise, I answered rather loosely ; "" It" is •supposed to'have been somewhere down Persia way." The husband pricked up his ears. "Gawd bless me!" be said; "down Pershore way won it ? Why I must ha' bin by it a score o' times!" Though living in Staffordshire, yet he was Worcestershire born and bred; and he called to mind the large market garden round and about Per*hore. ..".....:..'.