CORRESPONDENCE. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SYDNEY SQUARE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1546, 1 June 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SYDNEY SQUARE.

Sir,—l am reluctantly compelled to say a few words more, and then nevermore to trouble you on this affair. First, I met Mr Alfred Bennett yesterday, and informed him that I do not owe him 14s, although he signed a letter to the effect that I did. If he thinks Ido owe it to him let him prove it. To Mr Warren I do owe £2 9s, not £3 9s as he publicly stated. Now about Mr Coombes and my going to him last Friday morning with a contia. These are the facts :—ln October, ISSO, I sent Mr Coombes an account for .£6 13s 6d, and in November, 1880, leceived the following, which please print tcibatim: —

.£760 There arc three or four daj s' horse feed more, but I am not sure of the number of days until I see A If. Bennett, who was driving the horses for

This will show that so far back as ISSO I had received a contra from Coombes, not he from me. So much for my having gone last Friday with a contra to Settle matters. Now I said that I had paid moneys out of my own pocket on account of committee work. The fiist three items in the account above, amounting to £2 4s Gd, were for work done on the Square for the committee before any contract was let. Therefore I fancy that my statement was correct. Regarding other statements made in Mr Cumming's last letter he has been as grossly misinformed about them as he has been in those I write about; therefore I shall say nothing of them, except that they are equally misleading. Adieu, Sydney Square.—l am, etc., T. G. Sandes.

A clerk at Castle Garden, who had been reading the debate on the antiChinese bill, and just finished Senator Edmunds' remarks about the necessity of homogeneity among the people of the republic, glanced up at an Irish emigrant who was leaniug against the desk and soberly asked : ' ' Pat, are you homogeneous?" "Divil a bit," said Pat; "I'm a Corkonian." — Brooklyn Bugle. A speculative Canadian has just started for the great North-west with three-hundred large tents, expecting to sell them to immigrants. He believes that tliere will be such a flow of settlers there the coming summer that it will be impossible for them to procure accomodation, and that they will gladly buy the tents for temporai-y dwellings. The English Church Missionary Society reports that on the Niger tribe after tribe are ready to receive teachers. On the Delta of the Niger the people by the hundreds are throwing away their idols, and the churches are thronged every Lord's Day, while the famous old temple at Bonny, studded with human sculls is going to ruin. According to Darwin, there is a species of monkey which can sing a complete and correct octave of musical notes. ' The congregation's interest in the sermon of, a prominent- Tory divine was somewhat distracted by a cigar which was being gradually 1 worked out of 'the speak;erfs vest, pocket by his gestures, and winch threatened for a time to take the floor ttself. 1 ' 1 ' ' ,', MEZzorANTi, the wonderful Italian .linguistrwlio.knew 64 t and. talked 48 languages, turned his ] attention to lan-^ ri giiiig*feB because, when' a yourij* priest, he - rfototf-atforeignisailar.ftying, wkoryrkaied .to^onfess, but; could find. no j pritsst, -who sgouia-ui*deret^d.him;; ft -- K ~ * - -»„' " i,Tafe s l>etroz#^/w :^;^* says that wom'ff'fQß the MS: oßne^:sp>pe|9 / /fPerhap i s:

Hamilton East, Ist November, 18S0. Mr T. G. Sandls, Dul 10 Jamls Coombi s. To one day's work on Sydney Square „ £0 8 fo four men, one day, at (it> per day .. 1 4 Io one horse, one day . 012 To hire of plough, 11 days, at 2s 6d prr day . . . ... 1 7 To six da} s and nights' horse feed, for two horses .. . ... 211 To price of live share;., at 2<, each 0 10 To hire of plough, after the 29th of November, IS7O, three daji . . 0 7 To one day's* him of harrows. .. ... 0 2

Your account stands... Balance in my favor .. ... £6 13 6 0 12 <i