AN IMPOSSIBLE SUGGESTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1028, 18 May 1869, Page 2

AN IMPOSSIBLE SUGGESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE. Wanganui, May 17, 1869. Sir, —The Editor of the Wanganui Times proposes to you that the pressmen of the both offices should take affidavit of the number of papers printed by them. This is impossible, because the Times has no pressman.—l am, &c., T. W. Ferry, Pressman, Chronicle Office. OUR RANGITIKEI FRIEND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE. Monday, May 17, 1869. Sir, —The people of this district were considerably amused on hearing that your contemporary had offered a bet of some immense sum, no one thought he was possessed of, that your paper did not circulate so fully as his in this district. The people look upon it as the raciest joke they have heard for some time. Why, sir, it is a thing notorious that you send ten papers to every one of his, and half of the small number he does send the people repudiate and say they never ordered and don’t intend to pay for.— I am, &c. Marton. The proprietor who resides in this district is in want of his dividend but fails to get it. ♦ A CORRECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE. Turakina, May 13, 1869. Sir, —l deeply regret to observe in your issne of to-day a paragraph concerning Mr Fox’s intended lecture in this place, which contains several mistatements calling for correction, and which likewise throws out various implied censures on the residents of this district which, to my mind, are both uncalled for and unjust. lstly. The lecture was to have been delivered in the “Assembly Hall”—not in the “ School Room.” 2ndly. No money was taken at the door, so none could be returned. Srdly. Thelecture was simply postponed to Friday evening, 21st inst., its non-delivery being due altogether to the extreme inclemency of the weather, and not to any “ innate obduracy ” on the part of the inhabitants to avail themselves of public instruction and counsel, more especially when tendered by a speaker of so great celebrity as Mr Fox. 1 trust his advocacy of this great moral reform, thus successfully inaugurated, may be abundantly fruitful in good results, and would wish to see the public press fulfilling its part likewise in grappling with this monster evil of our day.—l am, &c. Andrew Thomson.