CORRESPONDENCE

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 211, 18 August 1893, Page 2

CORRESPONDEN CE

[The editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — With yonr kind permission I want it to be publicly known that the executive committee of guru diggers have not in any way requested the Auckland Liberal Association to support Mr Dargaville for the Eden seat. I may also state that the gum diggers will riot be made a catspaw for any person or party at the ensuing'election in this pari. The gum diggers have some serious grievances to be redressed, and it is our 'intention to work for this end, in a manly and straightforward way, By doing this we have no doubt we will gain the respect_nnd support of all honest men. —I am, etc., Wit. H. FITZPATRICK, Chairman of Executive Committee. (To the Editor). Sir, — In the last issue of the • Northern Advertiser ’ the editor has an article accessing me of certain underhe-d p.n-worlings with an A . ' i S sir, I do no! spoken to r. dealings will ally or by article in yonr > or a scoundrel, perm . - '■ Tcrievj the facts of the ca e, or he did not know them ; ii the former, then lie wrote what lie knew to he a deliberate lie : if the latter, then he is a scoundrel for reflecting on men’s honesty of purpose without being sure of his ground. I leave the editor of the N. A. to choose which horn of the dilemma he sits on. 'Rumour speaks of other horns in history; echo answers 5 City Hall,’ and ‘Leader Controversy etc.’ Who can the writer ho 7 I really cannot imagine and find it impossible to think. Mr Itees Ellis in these columns lately showed us the value of tho word of the tulchan 5 proprietor of the Id. A,— 1 hence these tears,’- —and, strive against it as I may, something (perhaps a Mahatma) keeps repeating in my ear the old adage, ‘ Like father like son.’ Alfred E. Haiiding. [■* t The Tulclian, or dummy, "ustat by old Scotch milkmaids, was a calf-skin stuffed into the rude similitude of a calf. At milking time the tulchan is set as if to suck ; the fond cow looking round fancies her calf is busy, so gives'her milk freely, with which the cunning maid fills her pail.’ We have had to look this word up so give the benefit of our research. Ed.))