A NUT FOR " AUCKLANDER. "

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 598, 21 March 1876, Page 3

A NUT FOR " AUCKLANDER. "

Sir, — In your issue of the ISfcli " Aucklander " says he wanted to telegraph after office hours. Did he ? He is the only one that ever wanted to Ido ao. He asks " why should the office be closed at five p. tii." He would not *ak the question if he was a telegraphut at a " ono horse " station and his life was like " Mantalini's one dimnitiou grind" week after week (not free even on Sundays or public holilays). I consider in all fairness, so long as there is no assistance or sufficient business to leep them employed, that the telegraph officos are open quite lorg enough for general business. I dare My a oaie occurs sometime that a porgon may wish to telegraph, at midnight — Why not advocate keepfrig the office Open till then ? Or why should not Aucklander have a telegraphist told off to follow hkn everywhere and save him from inconvenience. Anything in season. — Snooks. Alexandra, March 20th, 1876. [And in season it would be if offices wero opened for half an hour, from haL-past seven o'clock p. m, till eight p. m. — Ed. W T.]

Sib,— 'l bag to call attention to the following extract from your leading article of the 11th inst.— ln mentioning the rank from which our fofmor Governors havel>een taken yoUnay, " and from comparatiTely obscure baronets of no great social or politi6ftl importance 'in the mother country." — This must refer to the late Governor Sir James Fergusion' da he it the only baronet who has been governor of this colony.— The best and clearest contradiction I can give to your remarks is by the following extract from " The Baronetage." "Fergusson, 6th Baronet (Scotland) created 1703, Yrwj Councellor IS6S. Right Hon. Sir'JameB Fergusson, succeeded his father in 1846, Captain Grenadier Guards 1851, woimdedat Inkerman, was M.P. for Ayrohire from Decembjr 1554 to April 1857, and from October 1859 to IS6B w»i Under Secretary of State for India from June 18(36 to July 1867, Under Secretary to the Home Department from the lait date to August 1868 when he was appointed Governor of South Australia." It is rery certain that a man of Sir James Fergusson's birth and high family connoctiom-can hold no other but the best social position, and being a Earonet of Scotland and Nova Scotia he 13 certainly very far from b«ng an " obacure baronet," and his political stauding in Great Britain "is co well known that jour Ignorance of it bespeaks a '•want of knowledge ,of -events in the political world of England. You have the extreme b»d taste to refer to Sir James Ferguasons position as regards fortune, but permit me to say that your ignorance of this subject is as great as that of his social position, and I would' remark that Sir James inherits from distinguished ancestors a y*ry fine catkte of a value unknown td most people in New Zealand. You seem to think that onoe having a Marquis ' as a Governor, we are always to have a £tv gun, or it may be next a Duke, and thou a Prince of the blood royal. 3ut 'permit me to remark that when Lord Normandy left Queenuland he wag succeeded by a simple ' Esquire, as may possibly be the caie in this colony. I cannot but think t!iat a high minded nobleman like our present Governor will be anything But pleased at your remarks concerning him as you seek to strengthen them by misrepresent) ng his predecessors. Requesting the favour of your inserting this in your next issufl,'~l am, Sir, youvs faithfully, \Fath:ck Leslie. Wartle, 17th Murch. 1876.