Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. THE TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 10, 20 June 1899, Page 3

Correspondence. Co rrespondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. THE TEMPER ANCE COLUMN.

(to tiik editor.) Sir,— To the letter of Geo Dash Appealing in your issue of the loth in&t., and that of "Thick Head 1 ' appealing in the 17th, Mr Bdiehiun is, I sim suie, too well veised in the etiquette of newspaper contioveisy to make any leplv, en en i* the letteis lefened to toad anything in them 'to meiit it, for, m the fiist instance, the writer pioved hiuiseH— by his actions iwelve months ago— to be a " buffoon "or Something worse, and "Thick Head " has In his letter besides pei«onal abuse, amply demonstiates that he is what he signs himself. To quote one illustiation of his abject " thick-headedness." He tells us that " no one pays any repaid to what Mr Boieham writes or says." Evidently Thick Head talces notice of Mr B-ueham *s well as taking a column of >our va'<u»b'e paper to make your ipaders awaie T,battheie exists in Waimate, m the pei>,on of " Thick Head," one of the most Abusive, personal, illogical and scandalous waters that could possibly piesume to Attack the wiltings, s.tym^s 01 dol'i«s of a jeiitleman Whose bootid n net 4s t4 Thick Heal,' 1 Sy his scurulous lettev alundantlv pioves be is not woithy to i<me. -I .iii, etc., A Woumno Man. (This letter must con -mdc thib exchange of pleas.umoss. -K».]