CORRESPONDENCE. OUR ALEXANDRA CORRESPONDENT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 243, 26 September 1872, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE. OUR ALEXANDRA CORRESPONDENT.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — YourAlexandracorrespondent has oftener than once done me grievous injustice, by bis misrepresentations and false statements regarding school matters. Some time ago, a letter appeared in your columns, from the Rev. J. Jones, Clyde, showing that your correspondent's would-be report of .this school was a tissue of misrepresentations and falsehood. lam therefore, not a little surprised that you should give a place in your columns to any more of his statements on this subject, without first satisfying yourself that they are trustworthy. Hitherto, I have treated your correspondent's effusions with silent contempt. But as he persists in making false statements in your columns injurious to me and to this school ; lam convinced that another course ought to be adopted, and I therefore write to request that you will have the goodness to furnish me with your Alexandra correspondents' name, by the first mail, and that you will insert this communication in your first issue. — I am Sir, your obedient servant, G-eo. Reid* Alexandra 14th Sept. 1872.

[We have re-perused our Alexandra correspondents' letters, in which he makes reference to school matters at Alexandra, and fail to see any cause for the accusatioms made against him by M.r. Reid in the foregoing communication. If our correspondent has made false statements in the columns of this journal, which are injurious to Mr. Reid, we shall at any time be glad to give a place to their refutation. The question touched upon by our correspondent in his last letter, was one of considerable importance to the Manuherikia district. A plain statement is made to the effect that there are whole families in the district, none of which are attending school , aud the cause is attribnted to the rate of " fees being too hiurh." It is quite competent for any of our readers at Manuherikia, or elsewhere, especially for our accredited ' correspondents to pass their comments on any matter of public importance, transpiring in their neighbourhood ; or any grievance or abuse that may exist amongst them. Should Mr. Reid favor us with a refutation of our correspondent's statements, we shall feel it to be a very pleasant duty to give the communication a place in our columns. In accordance with a time honored custom, from which we have no intention to depart, we must decline to furnish Mr. Reid with the name of onr correspondent. — Ed.]