CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 281, 19 June 1873, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

SWITZERS MAIL SERVICE. (To the Editor.) Sib, — Tour worthy Switzera Correspondent soems not inclined as yet to drop the subject of the mail, and apparently for want of other means of defence retreats behind a barricade of illiterate jargon, very much reminding me of the slang of a schoolboy form. In vain did I look through Wobstor and Johnson for the moaning of tho word " bunkum," to come to some faint notion of what he meant, I had to give it up in despair, not being well-versed in colonial phraseology. As for his assertion that I have not disproved any of his statements, I can only say that they were so utterly devoid of anything like facts, that I did not think it worth my while to do so. What that most enlightened gentleman calls public opinion is rather a mystery to me, unless it is the opinion of a small clique of two or three halfeducated would be book worms. It is strange to me that the present contractor should have kept the contract so long, had public opinion been so very much against him. I took up his cause not with a view "to drag the subject before the public," as " your own " expresses it, but with a view of showing that though there may -be some people who are fond of giving vent to the venom of offended personal conceit ; there are others who like to see justice done, and every now and then are prepared to deal out a blow where it is really deserved. Hoping that " your own," in his public capacity as correspondent, may in future fulfil his daty only half as well as the present contractor does aud always has done for years past. — I am, yours, &c, A SWITZEES COBEESPONEENT.