MR KENNAWAY.

Press, Volume XIX, Issue 2808, 2 May 1872, Page 3

MR KENNAWAY.

TO THE EDITOR; OF THE PIWSS.; :■!. , Sib, —It was with feeling of mingled i and disgust I read 'a' Tetter which , jappeared in this addressed I to; "The Manager of the Itailway;" ais&; signed " W. Kennaway." The whole letfiefc: from signature, is so diwioarteoufl in tone, that.if it is to be taken as a. epecimea of Mr Kennaway , a mode ,o£ .coneepondence ; :.. with his fellow 6fficiala, i£'forces one to the * «. conclusion that the " honorable" individual in question must be the lineal descendant of that official in days of yore, of whom it is written that he began to beat hie fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken! ■ ■ ! • V : ' '- ,: Seriously, Mr Editor, it is time auch Bo* nemianisms should btf put a atdp to. I will not enter into the merits of the question be* tween Messrs Marshman and Kennaway; that is for the Provincial Council to decidfe upon ; but will not soma honorable Conn* cillor table a'mbtioh to the effect that his Honor the Superintendent be, yeqousted to place on the estimates a sum sufficient to pay the nearest parish schoolmaster twopence a week to teach Mr Kennaway'manhers; arid farther that the honorable member aforesaid - • be recommended to retire in meanwhile / intu the congenial shade o! oljscarity tfil his edacatioß be completed. Youre, Arc, ;■■:' ' ■ 81 C Christchurch, May 1,1872.