Correspondence.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 17, 6 July 1899, Page 2

Correspondence.

Correspondents' opinions are not necoi 6arily ours. > I

i(TO a'HE EDITOR-). * rJj Sib,— May I.^onceagain trespass on your space to reply to an editorial' of tl|| Wai«iate Times. As I h#ve befora pointed out it is impossible to jl the exudations- of the Times editor jn Iffl own columns because only' the man^lM remains of one's communication |« lowed to appear. In hi» leade&^&f | Ji^ 4th in reference to the Temperapce;: Cam umn the editor of the Times states \M that he offered the T.RJJ. dguble-^ space for less than half the , money, giwß to the Advibtiseb ; (2) that' since acceM ing the Advertiser tender theKpxM has been, reduced by one' half. " : ißptl^B these statements are absblutsly un^^B He- repeats, bis 'former^ st4tem'iM| tM members of the

-| at its inception, not- | |Bthstan<3wg that this has been flatly 1 Bifrnclicted by yomself and by the men | B nameit as interes<;et^ To make an | Hieition and when proved to be in the Js^Brong to blandly lepeat the mendacious i^Bafement is a peculiarity of the Times as for instance in his lecent conIjMoveisy with the Eev. McKeuzie Gibson iVhen he neglected to publish the scathing |H-it]sms uith which the rev. gentleman jjjHoncluiied. His statement (hat " the self [Hiteiest of the majority of the members Has evidently greatei than the welfare o£ fl>tlier the Union or the Tempeiance jßiuise," is worthy of its oiiginatoi, and, a jHhameless slander on the twenty odd men Sind woir-eu form the elected execu- ! Hfveof the Wairaate Tempeiauce Par'y. wsto the iettex in which he &t,ites I asked i ■dim to publish iepoit& of the union wcetRii^s, it contained no such lequest. He ■puiuVncd in his. colums for -weeks a leBq'iCbt to secietanes of societies, whose ■mcptings his lepoiter would not he e\■[lepted to attend, to send him lepozfcs for I juiMuution, My lettei stated that in leI spouse to this request I was piepaied to leiippl} him with lepoits* of Temperance Imee'm^ on the same teims as supped I fo othoi papeis, viz., fiee copy foe filing I v.hen needed. To one veiseil in newsI j.apei matteis, it may seem stianxje that I should (to quote the editoi) inak«J this "Ivue-fticed lequest" for a file copy as surh is> given by newspnpeis as a matter otcouise. This is not the case with the Wami.ite Times, to whjch I have for some fouiteen yeais in my capacity as seeietarv foi \inous societies and clubs, -luimshed repcits of football, social clubs, debating club, mutual unpitnement, band of hope, temperance «md other niectmq 5 !. For the scoies of columns oi repot Is I ha\e m the aggregate supplied to the Times editor, I ha-ve never leceived one penny of lemuneiation or a full sentence of thanks, and when I needed a file copy of the Tunes, men though it contained a fall column of myiepoits, the manager availably accepted payment. I rejjiet having thus j mention good turns done for anyone lut that the lequest for a file copy free, should be teimed " bare-faced " is my ex- ' cuse. The i idieulousness of a newspaper Juan stating that he mseited repoits aj; gieat inconvenience to himself is excinci. .itingly funny. The supply of repoits — which, by the way, was not a pait of sccietanal duty, but a private matter— did not cease "with the establishing of the A/h'jcistismi, hut on the making of an uncalled for pei sonal, attack on myself by the editor of the Times, and that individal has not since, save by the local to which I lesponded, asked for reports. But enough ! Sir ; I leave the Times Editoi to level in the mendacity of the remainder of his creations : the election of officers foi the T.R.U. this month will give the opinion of the Temperance Paity as to the " purity of its fountain head." — I am, etc. Geo. D*.sn. [We have inserted this letter refemng to matters that have appeared in the columns of another paper. This is unusual but we have only adopted this couise on being assuied that the writei had no chance of getting it inseited in the journal complained of. The writer has e\ery light to a reply according to the custom of Butish fair play. — En.]