Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 679, 21 October 1876, Page 3

Correspondence.

tfjp Our Correspondence columns being impartially open to aY matters of imbUe interest, we cannot be identified wit/j, the opinions therein expressed.

Sir,— Although my reply <o Mr Dennett is to found iv your adverti-inout columus, vrill you favour un with space for a few lemarks, aa the muter in hand h>s a larj<e 'measure of public iukre&t. The difference between Mr Denues and my>.p f is, thmt he demands £5 [er night for six nights of Lia peifounanoo here, after having publioly annouucel one as a bent fit for my chvs of young men, and I ■decl,ned lopay, but tendered him £10 10s, bjiug 10» over the atrouiifc I j.Ui.iaiteod, and Tie refused it. Tue det-ils will ap. pear in evidence at law, but, 1 wish jmt to r:mark, for pnblio informut.on, that I made Mr Deunes the above lu-traotie for certain services to be prrio.naed ou his part (ho guaranteed me £5 in the eymt of fa-lun), wbich weie shown madverliaeuieuts and bil.'i», drawn up from copies handed, me fur theputpnae by Mr Dpnnes, iv his own handwrni q The public «r« aware ho(\v tignally He failed, and after treating them to an exbibitioc of hiu own utter inability to pei(o r m the task he had undertaken, he baa the consummate gentlematicess to ask' £& for it, »nd the same for ttber uiyh'-a, for wheh 1 had emphatically dtc'.mtd to take auy r^pjnsibility, hut, at the same titLO, I y u.utnal conacnt, reuduftd bi.n eioij as uta. cs. Theiptiblio'-wiJl nee, tb< u^li Mr Dennes affecta to ignore the fact, that my uam«j was withheld in m tie auLOunuum&Dt: after the firat nigh*. Mr'jDennts' letter is an apt instance of the mode and tpititl of' hit' dealings in the whole affair, flr,, as a sii'nuger,' cbaractetislically offer* gratuito.m* iutormati n about myae'f to a people who kaye known me for years, aud, being unable to defend "hiniaeJf, reverts' to thi poor expedient of abusing me. Trustiug that I have not tre«pas&ed too mnoh on your ai'ace in showing the public tLa& I am ncti afraid of more light than Mr Deoneft' g&* can abed upon the question, and in hope that the "not over gifted young man " may be iiutru mental in teaching Mr Deunca to be hbottat ami courteoua.— l am, Ac, J. T. Johns. [Although we publish our oorreipon<!eut'« letter, we think it would have been iv great deal better ttste/aa the cabe is likely to be settled in a court of justice, if he had refrained from rushing luto print. Tbe public will then have the Leaf opportunity of judging (4 (h^ tat rita of the case, wbich they connot at piesont have, from mere expdrte state* ments, made on either sidj. — Ed. W. T ]

' Thb "San Francisco News Latter" tells the following wicked story : — "Lite Sunday it was no. iced thatexacrly twelro of our prominent ministers failed tt officiate at their post, and this without due notice in advance ; several of the churches were cloied, and at the rest the lemeet were conducted by assistants and deputies, The reason for this has ju<t come to ligh\ \. wicked and wordly young lady was sufficiently inspired by the enemy of man and religion to write a note to each of these dozen pastors, late on the Saturday previous. These musires were all on tinted and perfumed paper, and nil written in the big slanting hand > pecu'iar to 999 ladies in this country. They each contained the oininoas line — ' All is discovered, fly.' Nino of the dozen went out of town in the same ferry-bo'it, and the rest are tuppaied tp be at Los Angelos or Fescadero.

In Case or Fire ik a Stable. — A writer in the London "D*ily News " tayt :— " It it not, unfortunately, generally known that in the cute of fre in buildings containing horsei, if the hames< { be put on (however rougMjr) the horses will quit their <t ibles without difficulty. A knowledge of tMi fact rany be the meant of taring many a valuable animal from n hor.tible death."