TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9365, 14 March 1896, Page 5

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot undertake to publish letters copies of which have been sent to any other journal. Correspondents desiring insertion of their communications should, therefore, send us a statement that they have not been and will not be forwarded to any other paper. MR HUMPHREYS IN AMERICA TO THE EDITOR OF TUE PRESS. Sir,—ln your reporters brief account (a rather feeble account., by the bye) of his interview with mc, published iv las t Tuesday's I'kess, theru ace several inaccuracies, one or two of whicn I particularly wisn to correct. Your reporter makes it appear I had stated that all the shops in California are opeu on iSuud&ys. What I said was that the theatres and all the places of amusement in Sau Francisco were in full swing on Sundays, and that "• even some of the shops were open." It is also stated that all the Americans one meets with are uncivil. This ia quite contrary to what I Btated. The great incivility aud insolence so generally met avithin the Slates is almost exclusively confined to tailAvay and other public servants of the country, whilst on the other hand the Americans generally are polite and show the greatest kinduess to strangers. Our American cousins ate very sensitive on matters touching their national characteristics, and I should be sorry to unnecessarily wound their susceptibilities by allowing these misstatements to pass uncorrected.—Yours, ifca, G_o. HuiiPHaisrs. Christchurch, March 15th.