TIMARU HARBOR BOARD,

Temuka Leader, Issue 2464, 14 February 1893, Page 2

TIMARU HARBOR BOARD,

TO THE EDITOR. Sie, —In your issue of the 11th I find under the head of Mr Thew's address the following question asked by Mr Dennistoun, —which I feel bound to reply to : " Mr Dennistoun iisked how it was Mr Tripp .agreed entirely with Mr Thew's yiews on the matter. If he did so he was a most extraordinary man, because Mr Tripp had asked him, in fact, pressed him (Mr Dennistoun) to stand against Mr Thew on the harbor question. He, however, refused, because he considered Mr Talbot a very good man." The faots are these : Mr Dennistoun came to my place about a fortnight since, and said he had received a letter asking him to come forward for a seat on the Harbor Board against Mr Thew. What would I advise? I said there was no one who had a chauGe of beating Mr Thew equal to Mr Dennistoun. I said, Why not come forward, Mr Dennistoun? This is all that I remember that passed. I might have said that I did not consider Mr Talbot would get elected if he stood for the Mount Peel District. This version is, I think, rather different from the above remark of Mr Dennistoun.

Mr Thew came to my place on Wednesday night and had a long talk about the Timaru harbor. I repeatedly told him I agreed with him entirely about the shingle question, but not about the engineers, and that we must be guided by professional advice. Mr Thew's meeting at Peel Forest was on the 9r,h, and my letter in the Timaru Herald which appeared on the 10th, entirely bears me on t in what I told Mr Thew, that I agreed with him in not shifting the shingle and extending the breakwater. But that was my own private opinion, and if I were on the board [ should be guided by the engineers. I have never altered in the slightest.—l have, etc., C. G. Tripp. LAIUUKINISM IN WINCHESTER. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I would like, through the medium of your papjr, to c ill the attention of the police to the conduct of some young people in Winchester. They are in the habit of fixing wire across the footbridge near the township on dark evenings, so that people passing over the bridge will be tripped by the wire. Last evening there were two wires placed across the bridge and a lady in crossing tripped over them, and two others passing along the road were pelted with stones; so I think, sir, that it is time that these young people were seen to. If the parents will not look after them it must devolve upon the police to do so ; and as I have a very good idea who the said offenders are I shall, if it occurs again, report the affair to the police. Hoping that such things will not have to be complained of again, I am ? &c,

Resident

Winchester, February 13th, 18Q3.

| The youths of Winchester have had t\ very had example set before them by their elders, and this is the fruits of it. Perhaps the people of Winchester ml\ now realise that it is a mistake to sc| such a bad example before the risinggeneration. If tho men of Winchester want this sort of thing put down they must catch some of the offenders and havo them sent to gaol. Nothing elsg wiU do it.—E».]