BUTCHERS' MEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2980, 20 August 1891, Page 3

BUTCHERS' MEAT.

TO THE KDITOII. .'lilt,—So the butchers have found a new champion, a beef-witte.d knight by nam? Sir Loin (the IJaron of Beef's half-brother) having entered the lists on their behalf. Judging by the composition of his letter ho must bo a knight errant, i.e., :v wandering knight; and nothing could prove this more forcibly than tho following senlinn;.; t.iken from his lett.jr published in Tuesday's paper: "Tint meddlesome interpolator by his misrepresentation of fact.-*, coupled with a few snet:riii;; remarks upon the credulity of the pour hutohe.rs towards pucli individuals as 'J I. Bun",' would not only rob tlie'n of the small returns trom His dearly paid for stock, but bring HIM to a state of bare existence with all the worry, etc." I never gave tho "p'>or" butchers (as Sir Loin consolingly tlioni), credit fur being credulous towards me (whatever this may mean) ; it is the "poor butchers" who imagined their customers were credulous enough to believe their figures without questioning. I never sought to rub the "pool butchers" of the small returns from my dearly paid for stock ([ am not a grazier), nor did I seek to bring myself to a state of barn existence. A little further down we come to another remarkable sentence: "Luuking at 'II ljone'd' figures und tho profits ho gives as accruing therefrom sounds very big to the uninitiated, in fact, as he. put., it, ' a veritublo gold mine.'" How the dickens looking iit figures) can be said to sound as big as a gold mine, is beyond my comprehension, and I pass. Yes, Sir Loin must truly bo a knight errant—and very much errant indeed. —Yours, etc., H. IjONK.