CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 280, 12 June 1873, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To tlie Editor.)

Sir, — "Paul Pry" presents compliments to the ex-Secretary of the Tapanui School Committee and author of that war-like article in your issue of May 29th, and begs to apologise for associating him with the first letter from Tapanui. " Paul " is surprised at his own stupidity, in thinking the ex-Secretary capable of writing the letter in question, which, though bad, is infinitely better than our ex-Secretary's fiery epistle. P.S, — Special apologies are due from "Mr Paul Pry" for dubbing the ex-Secretary " the Blessed Bobby." '*Paul " sees this is quite a thorn in the ex-Secretary's flesh. "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search." — Merchant of Venice. Dear Mr. Editor, — Did it ever strike you that Shakespere, besides being a faithful delineator of the human kind, must have been possessed of the gift of prophecy. When penning the above lines, he must have seen the size and progress of Tapanui, and the letter of our ex-Secretary ; for though fiery and loud, when you come to examine the letter closely, you can find no reason for the letter at all. How simple and gentlemanly it would have been for him to have said that "Paul Pry" must have been laboring under a delusion when he taxed the ex-Secretary with the authorship of that letter, and thus heaped coals of fire on my head, instead of throwing fire-arms and ammunition into his letter. The ex-Secretary says he has acted honestly to the School Committee ; if so, perhaps he will explain why he took it upon himself to write Mr. South and ask for his testimonials, without consulting the School Committee. It may be that his ideas of honesty differ widely from those of people in general, as it was, on being taxed with acting in anything but a straightforward manner, he threw up the Secretaryship "in disgust," as he elegantly expresses it. On this account, the ex-Secretary's ideas of honesty might, if published, be found useful as food for our minds in the absence of a schoolmaster. — Yours, &c, Paul Pry,

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