CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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y (To the Editor). Sir,—lf it were not for the good name of an innocent girl I would not deign to reply to " Curfew's" scurrilous and Hunnish attack on the Milton post office officials, who cannot protect themselves through the medium of the Pres3. If " Curfew " had taken the trouble to inquire why the young lady called so late at the post office he would be ashamed of himself fir endeavoring to blacken a young girl's character by insinuating that she was in the exchange room so late at night for no good purpose. From inquiries made I find that the young lady called on a matter of busl ness, as she was expecting a telephone message, concerning a relative who was seriously ill in Dunedin—the same as many others do afcer hours, in cases ot sickness or death. In fact, I have known the postmaster to be called out of his bed at all hours of the night in cases of sickness, etc,