Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3776, 3 February 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

NOT THE,' SAME; \

(To the Editor offt*JißUv^jjiNft-STAE.) r ■-- Sir,-—Allow me through: the medium ~ of your issue to correct a.rery general impression that my agreeable namesake; and myself are*one and the; /same person;; > being too old a scribe'tdrjournalism to have the slightest wish to boast of another man's line of things made ready to my ' hand. There is this distinguishing ' v difference? betwixt us, thatmy godfathers ' and godmothers made a J.P. of me at a y very early age, and although ali; Ministries up to Ihe present time have shamefully neglected to elevate me to any Bench, except a carpenter's, still I shall continue to hold it to my dying day, by way of identification. As I have hot the

slightest affinity of thoUgttt 1 or^'actioa either with "Simon th,e Sorcerer" or '' Simon the Cellarer," it assumes a serious instance of mistaken identity. A quotation from Lord Byron will'best convey my wishes .—

"The words are Southey's, every linej" i^PFor God's sake, reader, talce them not for niiue." '

I am, &c, * i J.^OHN. Feb. 3rd, 1881. •- ■ •

Thb Fiji-Argus of the 2lßfc insfc. says:— "i " The unexpected arrival of H.M.S. Cormorant on Sunday last occasioned'a' gopd deal of * surprise amongst the townspeople, and shortly ,-after her dropping anchor all sorts of rumours were .afloat-*as to her mission. Ib vrai ■ generally Bupposod thai; her appearance in these waters waß to be attributed to a tardy determination' on the part of the British Government to make reprisals for some of the horrible massacres which have lately been of such common occurrence to the Westward j but no, while ihe miscreants who*" hare perpetrated' theae atrocious crimes "dwell in peaceful security, H.M.S. Cormorant, • - with her large crew and formidable armament, is sent down here at the bidding of the High Commissioner, who ■had-received information that Mr J. W. Hunt had left New Zealand with the purpose '• of returning to Samoa, whither he had been, previously deported at the instance of Si* Arthur, the instructions to the Commander of the man-of-war being, that should Hunt be found in Samoa he was to be agaia removed • forthwith from the precincts .W^the!i*NaTigator's group- Hunt was fountain *Lev-uka,' so the Captain of the Cormdraisif bad n» ~"i alteruative-but to return froal;Bi* footless errand, which lie did by startiug^jlu/il^^lura » «• for Sydney via Suva early on TiWidtiy'Aioife." "" ing." ' -V ' -