OFFICIAL INCIVILITY.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 485, 1 April 1869, Page 2

OFFICIAL INCIVILITY.

(To the Editor of tie Westporl Times.) Sib,—Can you please inform me how it is that a miner or any other person who does not wear superfine cloth cannot get civility from the "Warden's Clerk, Mr Whiteford ? In common with many scores of miners, I must protest at the ungentlemanly and snobbish manner in which we are treated when requiring registrations or other business at the "Warden's office. To-day I had occasion to get registered an application that was granted in the Warden's Court. Seeing that he was engaged at the time I politely asked him when I might call again. Mr "Whiteford immediately flew into a violent passion and told me that I had no business to presume to speak to him. Hethengotupfrom where he was sitting, and almost slammed the

door in my face, not even condescending to answer my question. If this was a solitary instance of impudence and rudeness on the part of the "Warden's Clerk I should smother my resentment, putting it down to ignorance, and bo remain Bilent; but I hear so many of my brother miners complaining that I have determined to make this, and any future instance of incivility, public. Perhaps if Mr Whiteford finds that miners will no longer submit to his domineering Tasmanian style he will learn discretion, and no longer behave himself as if we were all under his feet and fit for nothing but to be his footstool. Now, Mr Editor, I do not pride myself on having the best of tempers, and I must candidly and publicly confess, that if I am grossly insulted again in the "Warden's office, as I have been to-day, I certainly shall not be able to lesist the temptation of blackening somebody's eyes. I have got to reach home before dark, so am unable to write more.—l am, Sir, yours &c, EICHAED PeITNEFATHEII. Grady's Hotel, Westport, March 31.