ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 29 February 1868, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

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(To ihe Editor of the Tuapeka Times.) Sib,— A most desperate and unloosed / for assault has been made on the Lawreneonians, or any other man, by \ your undoubtable correspondent " Quip, 3 ? ' and as he threatens to do some more oC [ it, it will be necessary to try and put a i stop to him, or at anyiate endeavor in Some measure to avert the forthcoming avalanche of sarcasms which he is concocting, and wherewith he will no doubt greatly astonish this community, and very considerably dktinguish some of its members. , • " Quip n gives us a very curiou*-^to/ of information ,to commence with;jnesjL fays the Wetherstonians can navel a

school at Wetherstones simply by sending their children to the school at Lawrence. I have no doubt the Wetherstonians are open to conviction, and I hope they will take this view of the matter into consideration. And then "Quip "falls a wondering at what the Lawrenconians would think, if the' Wetherstonians were to do it. Do what ? Prevent the Lawrenconians from having a school. is what "Quip" wonders at. But the Lawrenconians having a school already, can afford to let xc Quip " wonder, until every individual hair in his wonderful head rises with astonishment. "Quip," however, is undoubtedly very sarcastic. Does not he say that one of the Lawrence School Committee showed the privilege of an early education by giving evidence in Court to the effect that Chinamen could "talk siigar." Certainly an early education must be a great privilege indeed-, when the schoolmaster instils into his pupils the language of sugar talking Cliinamen. But O thou " Quip " sarcastical, didst thou ever wonder whether a late education included the privilege of writing nonsense ? " Quip " then tells us a funny story of a man who unfortunately got inflated, and thought lie was equal to two men, and then tried to apply it (the two men) to practical purposes, but found that it (the two men) wouldn't work together, for the reason, as he tells us, that he, the inflated individual aforesaid, tried it on with one who fortunately counted them ■all over again, and somehow got things to fit, because they were Chinamen, and wanted a coat. Is it another privilege of an early education to know that a question in arithmetic is of easier solution because an tmfor unate Chinaman happens to be minus a coat 1 This question I ask with the greater confidence in receiving an answer, as "Quipt' promises to say more on the subject. — I am, &c., Quibble.