RE SOUR G. & C.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2781, 12 January 1878, Page 2

RE SOUR G. & C.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—Be so good as to insert the following. Partisanship in au editor is any thing but right. Editors ought to be impartial, at any rate, so far as the views of their correspondents are concerned, and not let their petty spleen orerride their judgment. Ido not write to raise or encourage spJeen in anyone ; I hare a far higher object in view, which will com* out in the long run. The Editor of the Advertiser having thought fit to cut my letter all to pieces, after having inserted a false and most insulting one from G., I shall not trouble him again with another, though a dozen such as G. & C. may contradict me in his journal. Cooper's letter is a sophism throughout; the truth it entirely covered over; both him and G-. know well that the vineyard .is full of disease ; large masses of the grapes, when I saw them, were covered with mildew ; besides, what could bs more convincing of the fact than the branch I left at your office P Perhaps G. will now deny that he ever cut me one. As to Cooper, in all kindness I say it, keep out of this controversy, or I may a tale unfold that will make you wince again. Yo» are the last man in the world that should venture to lecture an " old prophet" as you call'me. Again, I say, I repudiate the term prophet. A prophet.cannot err, but the most far-seeing into the prophets have frequently erred in detail. If Christians in general, and G. & C. in par* ! ticular, understood the real prophets, which they ought to do, they would- the* know that the destruction of the Tine is one of the special visitations of these last days. Why should not G's. rineyard go with the rest of them when his confidence is in that, instead of its being in the Lord of all the vineyards of the earth P I tell him. this, that if the ravages of the disease he has in his vineyard is as rapid as it was in the Cape vineyards, in two years his vines will not be worth a straw. Bis vineyard is virtually, though not absolutely, destroyed; and this is the sub* stance of what I said, and on which information you penned the paragraph which appeared in your journal of the second inst. I might if I nad penned that paragraph have couched it in different words, but substantially it would have; been the same. I) either, of the above waiters know anything of the nature, of' this disease, which in three years destroyed nearly every Cape vineyard, and which has ravaged during the last 30 years nearly every vineyard in the world. Their ignorance may be some excuse for their strange conduct, but, not for their falsehoods and sophisms, neither for their sneers and insolence. But I have, done with them, and shall not again return to the matter in dispute. But one other word to the ] partial Kditor. As ah Editor he is at liberty to insert or reject a letter from a correspondent, but not to alter or shorten it without first consulting the writer. This .is my practice,,and the practice of every impartial journalist, and in all good feeling I recommend to him in future the above course, or his paper will suffer for it, if it has not done so already. Prophecy is not fit for his journal; well, he being a Wesleyan, I don't at all wonder at his not liking prophecy; but his likes and dislikes should not interfere with. his correspondents expressing their views. Why, sir. nearly al(:the telegrams received from the old world presently will bo fulfilments of terrible prediction—the Book of Revelation ana the old Jewish prophets especially. Will he refuse to insert them P Not he, he will pay pretty smart for them and insert them also. He will be obliged to do so, for public interest is certain to increase in reference to matters of Bible prediction. Now I have done; but I purpose shortly to give you a letter upon this peculiar Vine disease Oidir.m TMckeri, the remedy to save the grapes untouched, and how to use it, Ac, Ac,

William Wood. ;, [In justice to Mr Wood,-our- "mii forinant" in what was stated in the paragraph which has elicited this controversy, we must say that his motives in first making known the presence of Odium Taken are commendable. The branch he showed to us was unmistakeably smitten with tho disease if appearances go for anything.—Ed.] ■ . ■ ■

A tbatkmkg reporter of the Bay of Flentj Times records a remarkable draught of fishes"on the East Coast. He says: Te Papiha and the Maketu east the great net (nearlj a mile in length) on 1 New Year's Day at the mouth of the Maketu Hirer. About fd«r' hundred natives, mdn, women, and children, took part. When the net was drawn elbie into the shore it parted several times from sheer weight offish, great numbers escaping, yet over twenty thousand kahawai, yellowtail, mackerel, and koheri* hiri were hauled on the bcash and counted cut in heaps of eight hundred . each. The fish were m fine condition, and Maketu wilt be redolent with the " odour of brine from the ocean " for somo time to come; indeed, any person coming_froqt that part of the coast will be~eftmy~> recogniied. This haul denotes, the: un« told wealth of fish which abound on th« * coast, ami I make bold to doubt if th« windfall which befel Simon Peter of old on the shores of Lake Gennesaret was a " circumstance "to it. V The Present.—Enjoy the present, whatever it may bo, and not be solicitous for the future; for if you take your foot from the present standing, and thrust, it ibrward to to-morrow's erent, you are in a restless condition,

W, FiMLAr, one of the earliest esta* blisbed Watch and Clobk Makers on the Thames, WISHES'IT KNOWN that he has again commenced business in Williamson street, in connection with the Manufacturing Jewellery Business of his brother, Mr James Finlay, and is pi*. pared to undertake all branches of the : Watch and Clock-making business. Hepairs executed with promptness. Charges moderate.—[Adtt.] : '■■ HOLLOWATH PILLS.-Safe, yet Effective.i-Wa otlnr Medicine combines theaame purifytn* alterative •i:d tonic propcrUes, wHo* have nised tt£. Mb «. hhhly In .lie estimation of the public. In diseaaM »rKinjflorn unhealthy bitua:>ons. clowamrtinenU'ar.d bs^entarr occupai'ous, no merna w potent far coo-'ji-. tlefttwiiT, and reru'aUn* th« fcuman bodr can be .nuncL # ifolowayg liUi von4«iuHy la\w£ and moderately^nmrfiis Ute fincamTol thTlhrw!heuue tiieir well-known power <* iemo,lur tainted' breath, and reuiaiyinyewiy other <!yipeiitlc w. , pleasantrsis. Tlicy cniißiy ovweoiM the' !eAaiM« s.-'inptoiiw a.jenil-n* "^d <l>3sUon, and hare iorrean I ten estremct. tte anC i n (cert :':.m!lr aneHent: TlierareiwrticuUiyHtiliabl* for yonna* fnaieiiurf

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