CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 4 May 1907, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TARAXAKI ELECTION

To the Editor,

Sir,—May I enquire which of the candidates is in favor of Bible reading in schools, and if he would do his utmost to promote same?— Yours, etc., A VOTER.

MR MALONE'S CANDIDATURE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—[ thank you heartily for the good things you say of me in your leader of this morning. But in the mutter of my position as an aspirant in political honors you unwittingly do me an injustice. You speak as though I claimed actually to be a member of that now extinct party called "Independent Liberal." I do nothing of the sort, and my statements on the public platform should have made clear my position. I said and say this -. "1 am a Liberal and a supporter of the Liberal Government now in power. An independent supporter claiming and meaning to excise the right when and if the Government seek to depart from a true Liberal policy to vote against the particular measure of iniquity." That is exactly what you say Messrs Jennings and Symes. M.'sH.R. do. Allow nic to say that if I were not a. Government supporter I should be an Opposition supporter.—l am, etc., WM. G. MALONE.

THE TOWX CLOCK.

To the Editor

Sir,—The description of the new poet dlice clock 210 doubt reads very well, Imt lie mire that it is not going to become n nuisance. Who, 1 ask/wishes to have their sleep disturbed by the quarter hours being dinned out at the dead of night? In fact, who itants the luxury of the quarter hours being proclaimed nt any time? Striking the hours is quite enough. Wo know that lots of patients are ordered to New Plymouth by doctors from elsewhere for the sake of the sea bathing and quietude. How will it be for those unfortunates who are troubled with insomnia? And then the monotony that flic peals become. The quarter hour peals are simply an uunocesary fad and nothing else. Ihave often heard boarders in hotels in Wellington at night wish the clock there at the bottom of the sea, and this one is of the same stylo as that one.—l am, etc.,

TIME WILL TELL.