A REBUKE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 305, 19 November 1873, Page 3

A REBUKE.

(To the Editor.) Sib, — By your impression of Thursday I observe that your own Switzers correspondent has lately been on a visit of discovery, and strange, although he has been a resident (I suppose) and a reporter of the general events of the district, he has known little or nothing of the Waikaia township until his "inquisitive mind" was attracted by a magnet in the form of a petition, which was in course of signature, the purpose being to place the telegraph office in the township. This led his worthy footsteps to the place. TTfa first impressions of the township were certainly anything but promising, and the effect of his judgment in producing simile was anything but proper. Surely he gazed from the heights of his stronghold above, and spurned the low-lying country as beneath his dignified notice. Did he consider for a moment that the testimony of the petition itself shows a majority of signatures even on Frenchman's Hill, and all the signatures in the neighboring .districts were in favor of the Waikaia site, with the exception of two individuals. Ido not accuse him of being a fool, for that sin is far removed from him; but his judgment is, to say, the least of it, most doubtful. Can he show me any advantage to be derived by having the office within the shell of an undertaker's old shop, on the crown of a bleak and almost deserted hill, which already totters to its fall ? Can he adduce anything at all to prove that it would be more beneficial to the, requirements of the districts to have it placed there, barring the fact that the hill is to a certain extent the centre of business ? Is that any reason why it ought to continue to be so, when it can only be approached at the risk of one's life, and is in many other respects equally unsuitable? And how comes your correspondent to affirm bo pompously that the telegraph office will be there ? By what right are these things all arranged when the expressed request of the majority of the Switzers population is that it shall not be ? Must we submit to a species of petty despotism, which can only be actuated by selfish motives, rather than the general weal of t\e district ? The Waikaia township is in every sense infinitely better suited for being the centre of business, and far more convenient for the great majority of the population, and affords many other settled inducements for the outlay of capital, which never can be obtained on Frenchman's Hill. As to your correspondent's finishing clause, I think it scarcely worth notice ; so, in the language of Prince Hal, I return it to him : "Wherein is he go 3d, but to taste sack and drink it ? wherein neat, and cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it ? wherein cunning, but in craft ? wherein crafty, but in villainy ? wherein villainous, but in all things ? wherein worthy, but in nothing ? " — I am, &c., A Fak-sightkd Individual.