Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3096, 5 January 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

[TO TUB EDITOB.] Bib-His awelMinown fact tliat in Irish matters the colonial publio ' as a whole are much more consegfjr tive iban aie the resident of Groat Britain "or America, As one who reads both sides pf.the ques. lion and has iio particular bias one way. or the other I attribute the present state of Colonial; publio opinion- .'. to the supply; of telcgrapbio' intelligence supplied us:fonnally by Keutor's agenoy and coutinued.in no better form by jthe Press Association; I would ask the student of newspaper" literature to turn-back the file of the last year note how many cablegrams ho can find having refer? ence to Ireland that does riot contain, some sting;or pointed insult, To findone line of a flattering nature when Ireland or Irishmen are the theme would be an impossibility,'' It is perhaps not, known that statistics prove ■lreland to be free from crime of all kinds th_an3.anyVotHer part! of Great Britain taking population as; a basis, : and this remark applies with ".equal forcetoof|6'nces ofa.viole'nftibaraote'i. Oh the last circuit boforeVthe;!titro?l; .ductipn'Bf-'theypre'sbrit'CHme^ctM' thirteen but of sixfy-six judges ;gh)veslS'Th|l?ci)mipn y<hssouw? : these;MprM;Ujatilre]and| 'tin- uhsnfe placebo r&ide" in^aiid ; for that opinion v\e have to (bank those , who pperaie^- r durtele^apfeAlß',; whose study lit appears to-Mt'witbi;; dwwwey d« ibou&ude of ,:v

our lru.i follow colonials aguiib'i ivUom I 'venule' 10 Buy wt. .cim liud -'very' liato fault. Aiuericau■ jouruali-have their owi. correspondents m Ireland, and ai the l'ressAssociation or Baiou Kuattj) 'cannot poison ths snmvji of infur wauou, a much more lioaral, ami, i venture to say, a.mow truthful toiu' pervades tho American press on tin subject. Though nut, peruaps, qi-it a case in point, 1 was tomowim, amused at ut message', in j edtofJii/'..- . l<ew Zealand limes, which ran'as follows:" fiie Englishumeniuieuc view tho visit of Al r Gladstone to ttic disfavor." Head tins look between tho Hue* for tho animus ami, bigotry which it covers. Is uotany British statojuiim at liberty to pay a friendly wit to all or any of the sovereigns of Europe, or of any other part of the world in which ho may be a sojourner for tb« time beiug ? One Irish gentleman some time ago, making a trip to the Colonics, c tiled at the (Jape of tioau Hope, wliere he was much pained \ and alarmed at the startling new? from the Emerald' Isle. tleexpresseu Lissentiruent to a resideutof the (Jape, who replied with souie.&urprisa"i\l) dear hoy that has been the case foi many a long day. Your country Bhould be sunk in the sea or anouored at a safe distance from the centre o: civilization." " Well," said . the Irishman," you appear to be aln-ad of the Oid~ World oat here, for J, wh > have resided nearly all my life in Ireland, now hear for the first time that my country has been in such n stnie of commotion." inother gentleman who had pni.l a visit some timi back to Great Main, told some ol liia fri-nds on his rVturu that ho had spent the greater pure of bis holidin in the Vale of Avoea, iiumort iliseu by Tom Moore as the" vale in whose bosom the dirk waters meet." '• Good h graoious, Mr Smith" said a lady who was listening '• Wereu t you afraid of being, saot?" The. gentleman attempted, but all in vain, to convince Irißlieaiers that he had no experience of outrage, during his stay in Ire land, and that even Irishmen wenGod's creatures. Ho was addressing thoso wlio wero learning con temperory history from the vagaries of Neuter's Agency, and. thoy put down ', his stutemenl as ut Blight stretch of imagination perhaps allowable in cue who had paid .£'los for a return ticket by oiu of our ocean racer 3. Moral: Head both sides of the question, Irish papers are to be had in the Colony; hear what the Irish people have to say on matters which ure certainly of more interest to them than to any other class of people. I am, Ac., . IjIPARTU'j.