THE TROUBLES AT RANGITATA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1707, 6 March 1888, Page 2

THE TROUBLES AT RANGITATA.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, —I picked this piece of pap er up on the road, and as.it is addressed to you I think it my duty to send it to you. —Yours, etc., A.E. “ Sir,—l have read another letter from the Peacemaker, and he seems to laugh at me for what I have got up to be in this School District. Certainly it is an honor to he addressed as a gentleman and an esquire by the Education, but then he does not know all the bother I have to put up with. I know Shakespear says a man cannot serve two masters—Brutus and Cashus wasn’t it? I only wish he had my billit tor a bit, and then he would see what it was. Here’s two neighbors of mine, both of them Ist class men, and the things I sometimes have to do any honest man would be ashamed of. Does anyone think I would have had a householders meeting and invited only half the people to it if I could have had my own way? No fear! Or that I would have forwarded a lot of complaints against the teacher to the Board if I had not been drove to it ? And then a lot of the others, like Mr Badham, are down on me like a thousand of bricks every time they meet me, and say it is all my fault, and that I don’t tell the truth, etc. Surely, Mr Editor, this is not fair to me, and something ought to be” , [The writer evidently fell asleep at this point, for he has not finished his sentence. Shakespeare never said a man could not serve two masters, or if he did it had been said before him. It appears to us schoolmasters have to serve a terrible lot of masters. We object to the way Mr Cassius’s name is spelt. It makes our blood boil to see it spelt “ Cashus.” We knew him as Mr Casey, but when he got to be a School Commissioner, or something big of that kind, he changed to it Cassius. The letter is a libel on Mr Badham, but if he sues us for it we shall file sooner than pay damages. Mr Badham has no down on any one, as spite could never be associated with the humanitarian, benevolent, milk -of - human - kindness sentiments which swell his manly bosom since he took to the peace-making business. Have we not been told that the peacemakers are blessed,’ and is not that enough ?— The Editob,]