Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. THE GREAT UNPAID.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 14, 1 July 1899, Page 2

Correspondence. Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. THE GREAT UNPAID.

(to thl, editor.) Sir, — In your issue of June 27th, your leader deals with a very important subject, viz , Justices of the Peace. I fully agree with your criticism^ especially that part dealing with placing such extraordinary p power in the hands of incompetent men— as several «uch adorn the list of J.P.s to-day. I suppose we have not forgotten the veidict on the impounding or trespas sing case which was before the court a few months ago, and, of coiuse, those recently appointed in the Waimnte district to the potion are a credit to the authorities who made the appointments. I piesume that it is quite unnecessary to quote ' Lord Coke ' or any other competent authority upon the subject because they lived in an age when discretion was the better part of valor, and judgment in a large measine was given in justice. It is quite time the list of J.P's was revised and those indiscriminate appointments erased, as they are making a delusion and a travesty on the whole system of our administration of jnstice, and a stigma upon any democratic community ; how long will the public of WVu j mate submit to such a stigma with- j out a protest I am not prepared to say, | but the candidates who should come forth to contest the election, must bo prepared to pledge themselves to a complete revision of the list, so as to biojik thiough the system of such maladministration and Tamuianyism. — I am, etc., A R,Ksrr>ENT.

(TO THE LTOTOR.) SlR r—l r — I hope it is not yet too late to thank you for the very excellent lead ing article winch appeared in your issue of last Saturday. It dealt m a most sensible and much-needed fashion, and with much delicacy of treat menfc, with a sublet of the very greatest importance to all, and especially to the of both sexes who are ]tist growing up. I think most decidedly that all fathers should wisely and carehill} ghe counsel and information about certain vital matters to thensons, when the latter reach a certain age, and that all mothers should- do the same for theiv daughters. There bv much suffeung would be prevented, and many young people kept from bems, fleeced in pocket, rendered morbid m mind, or frightened to death bv advit'sing quacks, and other sources of nmeiy. As Dr Truby King of Dunedm litely pointed out, certain functional disturbances otten take place when young people are ariving at adult yeais/ In all probubility, if the laws of health are observed, these distuibances will soon ri»bt themselves; but if any tcxnporarv ill-health be brooded upon by the sufferer, or cruelIv exaggerated by some quack for the s.ike of gain, lasting h inn may be donV This was the substance of what Dr King said, though the words, are not his. Your most able and valuable article states that there is great need for the wide-spread and sober information of this subject.' Permit me to mention two books endorsed <I>y Dr Simpson of Edinburgh University, by Frances Willard, and by various Chwsi tian demonstrations. The /books are of sober, scientific, and"' of truly religious spirit, and eacb costs about three shillings or so. Any bookseller can procure them from the Bible and Tract Society of Dunedin, or elsewhere. For young men, Dr Sperry's confidential talks with young men. For young women, Dr Sperry's confidential talks with young women.— J am, etcv -Anti- Quack..