"CORRESPONDENT" ON "SPECTATOR

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 250, 14 November 1872, Page 8

"CORRESPONDENT" ON "SPECTATOR

(To the mitot>.)

Sib, — By perusing your issue of October 24, I find an article signed "Spectator" — if an article it can be called. For my part I put it down as a zigzagg zag complication, -without sense lor meaning, and no way amusing. First, the Wf cockatoo states that signatures were obtained under false statements to a petition presented to Mr. Warden Carew. That will show you the presumption of the whale, who thinks the parties that signed the petition could not read the contents of it. I can tell this individual that the bona fide miners in that locality, about thirty in number, who signed the petition had got more common sense than the half cockatoo himself. Secondly, the half miner states that the Flat has been thoroughly prospected. He has been of the same opinion for many years past, and when parties travelling through the district happen to stop ia the vicinity of his residence, he makes it his business to call on them accidentally for the purpose of telling them, by the way df friendship, that if they wanted to starve to stop on Coal Creek, and pdßsibly, at the same time, the same individual would be making double vvapfes. That will show you the disposition of the half miner. In reference td the mile claim, if an individual monopolises 1760 yards with pegs, certainly the next 1760 yards will be thebther mile. Thirdly, the half bush lawylr. gives his advice gratis to tbe inhabitants of Alexandra, which is presumpjirion again; and as regards his college^edu cation, it is something like that of tft6 nigger — going in the front door and Hems; kicked out of the back. I was tolij he tried to swallow adktionary some tlh)e ago, but could not manage it, his k throat was too dry; but he is plucl^4, and still continues trying. Fourthly, the half spokesman talks about His breeding, but nobody wants to knoV about it. It is the same with horsed ; if people think anything of the horee they will soon find out his pedigree: j, if not, they don't bother themselves 4bout it. It is the same with the spokesman, people don't trouble to ascertain his breeding. — I am, &c.

THE COBBESfeONDENT.

Oct. 30, 1872. [This triangular duel rmlftteml here. -Ed.]