CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1259, 20 December 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To THE EDITOR', y ;":';'';.- Bm.—Your dboaV.rontemporaryJias been Borely exercised over my letter, htoly published in your- columns, and in the excitemehj; yof/ passion he- is both, unjust.aid. ungenerous, orto,nse one of hiaown beauti) fnl"'rnetaph'or,:'!! like a" pi? witrta ohobpeJ tail," To releiye,,him; of part»pf<biß' grievance 1 must apologise "for having uncoh' in alluding toMr Beetham'e reported speech'. "If ifwiil fie any I shall >be happy to prove' tojklrjditor of the Star that .1 an 'not in any way connMleT with"'the' Press,"thank goodness-being neither 1 ; editor;' printer, nor printer's dgyil r ,und;l h,6pe ; he :will nof Be owndevu anymore.''There is one part of your contemporary's- leader of Saturday, to whibhj' in seU-defehoeV I must refer, ¥He

Mouses m©off^bai;otthc^rophy. M I shall be glad if he.wiU onlightea myjignorance by iconMcending'y.to explain ;hia meaning 5 i first. 1 however, consulting;■'» good dictionary or a good small boy at tho publio school, so 'that ne may; not be in the poaition.of blind leading blind, .VAs the Star, however, has isefc up ■ for an . unimpeaohable authority on grammar',;; and ...■ general •: knowledge, perhaps a' 'few choice.; specimens ".. exitraoted:^w^ the•,.erflahing , "loader" lie an apology jf er (any] slip „ of: tho (pen 6j! a poor ;oounty.eleotor,.uForithe,'benefltii;of.,your \ readers^piithe^following:-"" By an ingenious jbut{veiry transparent device he - tnes.tb throw some of the odium so ifichly /" .earned;by ; our local,contemporary, <jbyMa miarepuling of this and the"' jtfarnala tftheyallcy,"-, "lihappem thatbesidctto •reporter; |for this jourqalilha ■tbe ; local paper was.present, &o.*jTheabove" • are from aro from that inimitable gushing effusion of. grand- bathos-" Ihe trip to the Forty-mile , : B']«h." Uk'hugt'viavei,%u^m : iio the :deßcen>|»ppear[pfeßipitous.',', .",Thero itm ; bare rooks b'f'thfi 'rijhest soil apiidm\tly mrywken." ;J "As the pair wrmhed holtor htlltr in the same tetion.'! ; V' ; The pumpkin jam and cream were aimply 'delicions'and'the.offier vege-talk-all the produots of our entertainer*' ■• gardens' -were beyond all praißeV!; i "iWithV .ootfages overgrown .by ■ ro?ea [find- ntat qar'But I rifaW respect your spaceVand&lot your readers refen to,'the local columns of the : Star,for December 16th for further and then; judge between my letter &nd the paper that condemned it.... .Li y lam, io, •'■■•'• '- '"■•?, ■ ' . A CooNTir Elector. [Country newspapers, from the! condition? under which" they' ate" publishedr'Me' ; ; usually prolific in verbal inaccuracies, We vVifail, however, to see that any publio ['."■■ benefit is to be obtained by the practice, : instituted by '-our -contemporary and followed by our,;'obrrespondent, of calling vpublic'attentio'n to them.—tin. W.D.j