Teviot, November 15, 1870. MAG-GEE BLACK'S LETTER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 146, 24 November 1870, Page 7

Teviot, November 15, 1870. MAG-GEE BLACK'S LETTER.

(To tlie Editor.)

Sib, — In reply to an article which appeared in your publication of Nov. 3rd, headed " A Voice from the girls of Tapanui," and signed " Maggie Black," I beg to inform the writer of that letter that all of us had a mother, and most of us have sisters. I therefore write these few lines in order to wipe away the stain thrown upon the fair sex. The author of this disreputable production is a well known young man, who has in vain attempted to pay his respects to some of our young ladies. Not being suitable to their fancy, they have given their hands to others. In a fit of derision he turns round like a son of Ishmael and writes this disgraceful epistle — one of the most detestable that ever graced the pages of a colonial newspaper. He is associated with a very bright luminary that sprung up like a phoenix in one of the wooded gullies at the foot of the Blue Mountains, and has been for some time diffusing his light in many different ways. He has acted as a legal adviser, as a trustee in the winding up of a dissolution of partnership. ' Being greatly given to study works suitable for his different p ofessions, he has well read the fable of the lion dividing the spoil. Again we have seen him acting as a son of Mars. For this noble art he appears to be well acquainted with an old song called " Simon and Janet." We now see him employed in the field of scandal, Before the honourable gentlemen got the same article referred to finished, they were boasting of their own shame by calling themselves Tartars. Perhaps they are trying to imitate the great Tammerlane the Tartar, who was delighted in having a pyramid of men's heads built up in the corner of a street. Their delight appears to be in seeing a pyramid of what they call nicknames stuck in the columns of a newspaper. Mr. Editor, there is no use for wasting any more space in your columns on this matter. But I refer the authors to an article in your publication of the same date, which you have copied from the "Melbourne Leader." It well shows the fatal results attending the foul work of slandering character. Before tha same gentlemen write any more to news-

papers about jaws and puffers, we strongly recommend them to minJ their own puffer until their brains get more powerful than their own j::ws. — I am, &c, Observer. • Tapanui, November 16, IS7O.