CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1707, 10 June 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

■r-- : THE VOLUNTEER BAND. '"' "TO Till! EDITOK • '. ■■Sir,—Til last Saturday's Star 'it was stated that the String Band had been engaged to: play at the comin< Volunteer bill. A number of people, .mislead by the statement, came to mo asking if it really was a fact that the Masterton String Band would supply the music, As I had not received any notice to that effect from the Volunteer cnminittoo I went to seo the secretary, Mr Bright, who told ma that at a commit'ee meeting held oil ;]?ritlay: nightj a. roaoluti*jn hud been passed to engage the. String Ban«l, and he assured me that our services were to be secured.'But why, none of the committee took the trouble'.to see me and arrange termvduring Saturday is open to conjecture,: on which" I .may perhaps express;myself more plainly in another letter.: :The Masterioii String' Baud has not been engaged to ulayal the Volunteer BalI.:-■ There.-is' another; so-called string band (containing oiie stringod instrument) who are known under the name of the Ooncordian Quadrille Baud, of which MiGeorge, Bentley is leader, i ',: ; Yours, etc., [ ; ; " : r A. Keisekbeks, Pianist, M, Str. B. :

SIR. JULIUS VOGEKS OPINIONS. . The Lytteltcn Timos of Saturdayjont»*ns the following letter from Sir Julius Vo<el telegraphed from Diinodin : . ' ''TO THE EDITOR. " Sin,—Acciden'ally I have seen jour issue of June 5, containing a brief report of a meeting of Mr and a long letter trom Mr Doraey; I/deeni them sufficiently important to telegraph a reply trusting to your fairness fur insertion. I; have nothing to do with Mr Dorney's dispute with Mr Howland, but I ask Mr Doraey and your readers to suspend their judgraentas to my Opinions until I have addressed the electors. On many points Mr Doruey is entirely mistaken as to .niy opinions',' and he foils to do me justice 011 the subject of liorriiwini;., .'

"As to the borrowing undor my teippiifiibility, I submit the objects served have justified it. That it costs (ho colony so much is because I was overruled in tho precau'ions which I wished io take to mako. the laud responsible for tho cost. ,It is no fautt of mite that .private individuals made large Bums which:should have passed to the State..

"As to future borrowing, I utterly repudiate the proligate policy, of borrowing for the sake of expenditure. I doubt if there are many public men who would be more Bttif-t in exacting rigorous conditions as to Ihe objects for which the colony should borrow-further, and the precautions' it should take to protect "itself, ''As to my standing in the interest of any-particular class', I wish any of those who may bo. supporting me under such impressions to withdraw their support, for they will fiod themselves woefullymistaken, I' will favor' no class. All classes have equally tny consideration, There are many thousands of persons : of all classes through the colony who can hoar witness to the fact that my sympathies havo never beon of an isolate character. . "I have tho highest respect for Mr Wason and should profoundly regret being the means of permanently keeping so able 'a man from public life. I was reluctantly compelled to oppose hira because, having signified my willingness to enter Parliament, I cool.] not consistently refuso the opp'iitu i>y < flared by an existing vacmn-y mid be the means of creating another vacancy by accepting Mr Pilliet's sener. us oltVr. Mr Wason, however, roue' have h, en a musing himself at the e'xpeiin.e'.if Jin hi-nrors when he said my return is more likely than his own to continue Mm nivtWHt Government in power. Sorely lie i iiijht to know the exact contrary is'ilie caso. "lam, etc., •' ' " JOUUS YOOEL."