CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2464, 30 November 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO IHB EDITOR. Sie, —After reading your leader iu yesterday's issue, alien,' me to suggest a way in which Mr Chas, Macquarie can get your contemporary to take Daok all he liae said about him, and to furthermore writs him up in future issues aa a small angel Bent from Heavon to save the particular district he repcosants, all he has fljofc to do is to acJuariiae with him. . Let him Bee that overy public body ha belongs to pays its share of black mail in tho shape of advertising, oharges (never mind if the advertisements are wanted or not) and it is wonderful how soon the luminary will veer round to the right point of the compass, and laud him to the skies. Did space permit 1 could quote a dozen instances where thia has been done, but will contout myself with one, viz,, When "Ivo," (Mr Tlvison) first camo up here to lecture, he was scarcely adver» tised in the Star at all, and that ' journal served him in exactly the same manner that it is serving Mr Macquario now, but when " Ivo" came up tho othor day, and. announced a lecture your contemporary suddenly discovered (when it had got tho advertising) that " Ivo" was one of the most clever and wonderful lecturon that had ever appeared in Masterton. It's •rather late in the day for you to waste time and space protesting against thetactics employed by your contemporary, for having pursued the samo course ever since he lias beon established, and as it is the only way he can secure support, it is hardly likely that ho will abandon it now. i I am, &0., Observer,