CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1476, 6 September 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

{ioMz EDITon.)

SIR,-It is a lohg-establisheii tratb, • and one that is appreciated and upheld ' by ..all honorable. an.d. honest persons; " That a good, neighbor j s Jugbly to be ' prized, and worthy of .-every good man's esteem jwhiio the, W, mean, skunk of (levil-likechamcterj who would not hesitate to rob his mother of her inheritance or the.-, babe of its crust, U not worthy a footing on the earth, or a place in honorable men's society." I would inform you that about four or five years ago I visited Nelson, and on my leaving I,had presented to me a few fowls of superior-breed; but as my position in life has,' as regards moans, been very limited, I have not taken wuoh aotion respecting them, as to extending or increasing tho sort very much in thu distviot. I had, however, in ray possession on Friday one of those commonly called a rooster,' It.", was, sir, a.very!handsome, and I may say, without any-exaggeration, a very beautiful bird, which I had wished to .have Bold,.lhave no doubt but I could have made' a,pound by it but by •' misfortune on Friday last it happened . to get over into the next holding, where it was Shot, without my having "• any notice of such intention j nor iaa the*person who" shot it any garden; .-.'.:■ or could tho solitary bird do the least. ■>, damage whatever to him. But the act has been a most malicious one, and one .which, while it has injured me;'';/ had in no way profited those at whose .';'. insiiince the unneighborly transaction :■ has been perpetrated. Such acts as these oiily tend to create mischievous :•. ■results, by which no good is likely far >' be effected.; 1 may hope, however, that, although in'thjs case I am tha :';. loser,,the man who'has failed toaat•>■■•• Me p»rt of a neighbor in its true"'--' "t sense may see his error, and in future learn to act toward, his follow men»»'.., . he would his fellow. men should do to ■ him, , •:-,„ lam,'.etc, '"■• Thojus William Shotb. ~. Maatorton, September sth, 1883.