THE LATE ENTERTAINMENT AT KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1615, 9 November 1882, Page 2

THE LATE ENTERTAINMENT AT KIHIKIHI.

I TO THE JEDITOR. I Sir,— l see that the Irish Tiger, erstwhile the British Lion, has been roaring in your columns "seeking whom he may devour." In his savage hunger- he has thrown aside truth and resorted to the lowest depths of his animal nature. That those at a distance may know the libellous falsehoods they will only have to look at the wording of the missive, and see such phrases as "pothouse-singer" "full-blooded nigger," etc., to discover the venom of the well-known outcast. In his eagerness to gratify his feeling's he forgot that such terms carry with them their own condemnation. It is not the ill-natured effeminate spleen of one disappointed and rejected imbecile (whom the ' troupe would not admit as a member) that we care for or value so much, as the opinion of the public who witnessed the entertainment, and whose verdict must be guaged, not only by their unbiassed eulogiums, but also by the unmistakeable satisfaction and pleasure they exhibited by their continual applause and merriment during the performance. The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof, and the troupe intend ■ to give another of their favorite localised entertainments, ' and if the house ia not as well filled, or more so than last, then, Sir Splenetive will have been right; in his ill-nature'l aspersions. That the performance was a success, both monetarily speaking and as an entertainment, those who witnessed it can say. Those who have seen the miserable article, and who saw the entertainment also, loudly condemn the low personal tone iud character of the Billingsgate effusion, and attribute it to the effects of delirium tt emeus or the full moon. As for ourselves, we cannot afford to be generous, and pity the poor benighted and rejected sycophant, who wallows in his ignorance, his antecedents and illbreeding. As to the little episode, as he calls it, at the door, the secretary of the town hall did ask for the money, the hall charge for the night, but of the money -taker, who paid it, and the troupe knew nothing ot the circumstance till after the performance. So, therefore, the story of sending for the fighting man of the troupe is utterly false, and in accordance with that spirit given in the usually grand style of the writer. The troupe was not aware that the money was to have been pre-paid, otherwise, the troupe would have done so cheerfully. But this much, the money was, and is paid. Can the same party say he has always paid his hall fees. ' ' Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones." — I am, &c, ■ W. Paltridge.