Correspondence.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 2

Correspondence.

2o the Editor of the Colonist.^ , Si«,«-Your many readers will' be interested to know that on my ret urn from a second visit to the West Coast", I have tnuph pleasure in mentioning the discovery of gold, in situations, and under circumstances which, hold out a good hopxr. of its being found in paying quantities; as also of extensive fields of coal, the presence of which must eventually secure a large population,-and also the cultivation of the many rich valleys aud plains in ■which this district abounds.—My> engagements at present make it n.e.ce;ssary for me to be brief, but trust in the course of a fe.w days to-put the public in possession of additional'and fuller information respecting tbis interesting land. I am','Sir, ■X,.'Z ' '. Your Obedient Servant, . JOHN ROCHFORT, Appointed Surveyor, &c, &c.

To.tliti MUor of the Colonist. Sir.—You will oblige me by inserting the following remarks relative to a. race that took place this day between certain parties on the main road between Nelson and Richmond, which race, I think highly improper and injudicious to the public at jarge. We liave, Sir, no doubt, many amongst us who may think that the highway is a proper medium -for their .excursions; but I do ~-thiuk' that tlie public should be preserved by some means, .either, by some justice of tlie peaCey dr otherwise, from having to walk, in town .-whilst.•.some Jire,amusing themselves by galloping. y;. ,'^''eiiclbse-iny^'nathe"-ln'accordance:-'\vith;yjpufa'e-cfuiiement,.and sign myself; .... A-- ■.-• -^ •-'-•• i -~.. -, -'Z;:. AN-PBSERyEIt:^ •..Nelson, December' TOfch, 1859,./ ." ZZ-Z Z,

To the Editor of the Colonist. ' •-.'■' ' Sin,—Although both you and your readers must have felt thoroughly disgusted, I of course, felt highly honored to find a whole column in this'day's 'dolonist devoted to personal, abuse of myself in the.-productions, signed' by Messrs., White and Hume. I sincerely pity Mr. White, as the letter which follows his shows the nature of the reports1 he has been accustomed to hear, and has perhaps been credulous enough to believe about me from the '"agent," whom it appears he is not ashamed to •own. I refer especially to the six lines, which that agent has had the impudence to put' into.his ;letter, and mark as if they were a quotation from rpjp^ -, ■ .<■ . ■:■ --rr.;; .._:■■...••.-. ry ■ i rs.•■ah^ity•■•beai'Bll()' ('proportion to his effrontery,, andl that in thiai/at--has shown so ihutrh. ignorance both of his o.w,n ; ciiai*acter aud mine;as', leave1 tlit»'Story without, the'siighteftapue^i-aiice xif 'pi'obaliillfy'-riio "person .who knows "hid iwonld' believe that I was i_vl*i'huthble enough to ask Mr. IHume forhis exclusive.patronage—no person who. knows Mi*. Hume would ever believe that he could/ have been'-so easily 'got rid!6f. ~-■ V The third paragraph of Mr. letter conr tradicts t|ie neither Of,them heed any'v?ofrom*mF4sL $$' Mr^ Wfiites: •^sertidriabostinypi'^^ taicient feis^) 7ieeXi _a>! well ii. {-.utterly without foundation, jany;c!orap%nt ■;?s '•' toy conduct under that head' at "that time^puld; ;Wme wit h ayeiy bad .grM-e ''from a* gentleman who' ;'"Ms eyer since bail*ttuh #^^

reasonableness ot tay prices and the propriety of my alterations as* to leave standing instructions with the proprietors ofthe Examiner, to make his own prices correspond with mine in every alteration however frequent or minute. I need scarcely add that Mr- Hume may write as long as he has talked about me without being in the leak danger of ever receiving an answer, as when I descend to a correspondencb witli him 1 should .want a pair of stilts instead of " high-heeled boots " to keep me out of tho dirt.

Yours, Ac, - ALFRED SAUNDERS. Richmond, December 2C>, 1859. (Tin's correspondence having already become sufficiently lengthy, we must decline publishing -any more communications on this subjects—En. Col.]