(To the Editor of the Southern Cross.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 20, 2 September 1843, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Southern Cross.)

Sir, — I am really sorry to observe in some passages of your esteemed journal a shade of coutempt thrown on these most harmless and innocent of the Government officers — yclept Traps. — I hereby publicly declare them to be a persecuted set of honest men — who, through various inoffensive causes, have been compelled to accept of their present unenviable situations ; and not from any wish to serve the individuals, whom they, in duty bound, must submit to, and acknowledge — with subservient complacency — as their superiors ! Some of them are, every now and then, accused for various little officious intermeddlings and misdemeanors, of which I believe them entirely guiltless ; — only the other day, one or two of them were brough before the C. P.M., and cathechised by that "high-flying" functionary respecting the disarrangement of the Government fence : his puissant majesty the "Acting" having chosen to blame them for it, because probably the " high -flyer" had offended him in some trifle or other — and so he chose the plausible alternative of fixing the odium on the C.P.M. himself, by accusing his " low-flyers" of a misdemeanor. I have even heard it hinted, that depositions were taken to make it appear that the poor Traps were seen pulling down the fence :—: — this last is merely a supposition — although should the " high and mighty" honor this with a perusal, he may recognize it as something eke ! — this I know, his negligence in getting the fence. repaired kept the poor traps running morning and night after other people's goats, &c, &,('.. I, for one, belief the' common traps to be devoid of public or private animosity — and to be as useful and upright members of society as any in the place — and to avoid all suspicion, I solemnly declare that these remarks are founded on disinterested feelings. Apologizing for troubling you with such an object, — I am, Sir, &c., A Poor Trap. Auckland, August 16, 1843.