CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4325, 21 January 1893, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE LATE TEMPERANCE MISSION,

[To THE EdIIOH.]

Sir, —I find that some most astonishing statements are going the round rt the amount taken out of Masterton by Mr Tennyson Smith. It is said that he has scooped the town to the extent of £76. Will you there-* fore kindly permit me to state that the credit balance of the mission, when all expenses were paid, was £l4 lis s|d, and this is the sum that he has taken out of the place. I wonder whether any professional advocate of the liquor traffic would do as much work as Mr Smith did for the samo money ? The talented lecturer has fully sbown that he is not a mercenary hireling. And Maatarton has bson bo far delighted with him and the excellent spirit he has manifested, that when, ho returns he will find packed houses for another ten nightß, Tho above financial statement will probably satisfy oven those manly opponents who failed to meet him on the platform, but who are very courageous now that he has loft the town I Verily the ago of chivalry ia not past I

I am etc., John Dukes.