CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4422, 18 May 1893, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Veritas 1/imit?" The Devil Wins I (To the Editor W.D. Times), Sib,—The discussion on the Star Hotel question seems to be a case of •' one up, one down." No sooner is the Eev. Dukes Bilenced than Mr "Veritas Vincit" rushes into the breach, evidently after sleeping on a Latin dictionary and a pile of blood* curdling novels. Allow me to bore you for moment with some of his fearful rubbish. After referring to myself, ho writes: " Even though he (Mr Pow- " nail) may temporarily triumph by "calling tohis aid the powers of dark- " ness, yet right mnst ultimately con- " quer, and the flag of purity, justice " and morality flutter in the breeze of "prosperity, etc., etc." I am not going to condescend to reply on the question at issue to an individual who has not the manliness to sign his name (if he has one) at the foot of his blood curdling recital, exocpt to say that confident as I am of my own power I never imagined that I could call up Beelzebub and his host on demand, and really was not aware that I kept a large staff of various colored friends, at a high salary, to assist me in my practice. If my himi"ln Vino Veritas" (knownin pnvato life as" The Bogey Man") will divulge his identity, I shall for the public safety have him examined by two doctors, and he will find that the only fluttering which will be done by the flag of purity, etc,, as far as he iB concerned will be the flutter of his boiled garments on the asylum clothes line, _ The Rev. Mr Dukes has been in this discussion, the writer with whom I have had to deal, and with whom I prefer to deal, as his letters at any rate are written with sense and ability, and do not sound, as in the ease of the babble of "V. V.", like the fag endofa a "shilling shocker." I have distinctly made Mr Dukes a challenge on Mb own assertions—Mr Dakeshaß not replied or attempted to reply; therefore I take it that he, and his party with him, have cried "ptccavi"; deeming discretion the better part of valor. But until Mr Dukes does come up to the scratch I am not going to reply to every nincompoop who chooses to rush into print; and anonymously at that, probably to conceal himself from the contempt of his neighbours on reading hiß eminently idiotic traßh. I ahall not reply to any further correspondence on the uubjeo't except from men who have the courage to let their I names appear with their opinions. | Yours, etc,, CA.POWKAW,