TO CORRESPONDENTS

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 23, 8 June 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS

G. —Scandal raised by ill men or women is like dirt thrown by children and fools at random without provocation ; it may daub filthily at first, but is easily washed out. Value the malice of such people as little as their friendship, the one being as tickle as the other is false. Cobb.—Our attention has been called to the matter before, but we have no reliable information on the subject. We cannot tell why no subsidy is to be granted this year to mail coaches between Wellington and Wairarapa, why a large subsidy is 'granted for those running between Wellington and Wanganui, or why Mr Bunny’s motion on the subject was withdrawn. M.P. —The' production in Court of a certificate of a former marriage would not be deemed sufficient evidence by a Magistrate to commit for. trial any person on a charge of bigamy ; a certificate of the kind was produced in support of a charge of this kind at Wellington, and evidence taken to shew that both parties to the first marriage were alive when the second marriage took place, but the Magistrate, owing to the absence of the principal witness, dismissed the case. An Elector.—We have heard it stated, but we do not know with what truth, that the members for this district in the Provincial Council will, at the close of the session, convene a meeting of their constituents. We are sadly in want of information as to what has been done or left undone during the session. H. —You rightly characterise the edict recently issued by Mr Stafford, forbidding any information being given to the press, as a most unwarrantable and despotic proceeding. The Government can have no secrets which must not on demand be revealed to Parliament. No state secrets can be kept, but official blunders and official crimes are naturally desired to be kept hidden as much as possible. We would ask how can the press comment on passing events, if all information about those of most importance is denied to it. It is time that the Fourth Estate asserted its existence. A Gardener.—lt ought to have been stated that the excellent article on gardening for the month of June, which we inserted last week was taken from the “Wellington Almanac." We shall continue the publication of the Gardener’s Calendar, and Farming Operations, as we believe they will prove useful to many and interesting to most of our readers.