Correspondence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 3

Correspondence.

(To the Editor.)

, Sib,— : " Your Own Correspondent" from Dunstan, judging from a letter in last week's issue, seems very anxious to find out the sex ©f one or two writers in Alexandra. Had he studied literature as well as he has apparently done hone flesh, he could have divined the ■ex at once from the reading of the letters ; at all events, there is no mistaking the gender of "You Own Correspondent," which smacks both of harems and Orientalism, which

Byron describes of the peculiar gender, aa of no sex at all. His ingenious method * of perverting facts has again come to his rescue. He says "A Mother's" pen was no scandnL Now, as "A Mother" simply related facts which could not be contradicted, the scandal remains with the actors, and not with the pan that exposed them. He seems to Beft no- difference between a. scandalous action exposed and a good action scandalised by an unworthy pcn — "the mighty instrument of little men." He even forgets the contents of his own lettei. I think, if I remember rightly, he had a complaint a column long, and abused a virtuous action instead of a vicious one. He can likewise, on referring to M.P.C.'s speech for the Dunstan district at the Council Board, find that he was the first to complain of the audacity of the Superintendent, who dared to inspect either food or liquor on the goldfields, and, worse still, to ask the Council to contribute towards the salary of an officer for the purpose ; indeed, the member's burst of righteous indignation would be almost sublime, entitling him tp be classed as a New Zealand Brutus, were it not that there is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and the ridiculous side was quite apparent to those who knew the member's store might be the first inspected, although they also know that all his stores are quite perfect; yet who could tell what a wicked inspector might say. He might be quite as bad as Constable Pierpoint ; instead of turning his head the other way, he might walk straight in and inspect the stores ; then what a fine field for abuse and complaint " your own " would have. He might even grow eloquent over the tyranny of an inspector «nd the.griefs of a hay stack. From a correspondent he zaighb rise to be an editor, beat least sub-editor, in the " Dunstan Times " office. As for bis proposition of deposing the men from office and electing women in their etead, I cannot see what benefit would accrue to the community, as the majority of those in office are only old women dressed in men's clothes. — I am, &c, A Mother.