CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1388, 26 May 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE LATE ENTERTAINMENT, To THE EDITOB. It is more in sorrow than in anger that I send you this letter. 1 feel grieved that a. really clever- raan-like the editor of the opposition rag should have to prostitute his abilities by having to write to order, or in any way that a ten shilling' advertisement may lead him. "Personally I do not care a fig whatever may be written,! arid can put up with the dirty slurs that'have. been thrown out by your contemporary, but I do think it a mean contemptible piece of business to run down,a really talented,-Company, simply, became I did not adyerfcise them in that particular paper.' Tain confident' that the public of Masterton will always patronise, any .company that I brlngupifor the Simple reason that they wiU always, get the worth of their money, as I shall always make it a rule to see-they are worth patronising before engaging them. If I am not mistaken the: artist .whoitries to frighten people into advertising in the other paper by threatening to get the editor.to''slate'-.them if they refuse, was once connected with your paper, and used to 'giver, us a treat (?) occasionally under'the Nom de plvm of " Scavenger." (jI notico that he still sticks* to-the ditt rl and has not forfeited his right to'that u'nenviabl'e,title. j lam kc, G. Cokeb,