"OLD PRACTICAL," "POLLY PLUM," AND THE HOST OF NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4409, 2 October 1871, Page 3

"OLD PRACTICAL," " POLLY PLUM," AND THE HOST OF NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.

TO THE ETUTOIt. . Pear Sir,— ln reference to the remarks, of your Maun'gakaramea correspondent, permit vftQ bo state that no one can be-more lieartjly tirod than I am of the controversy on ." Woman's Rights" or "Wrongs." I feel that the discussion has degenerated into tiresome reiteration. , Every , possible argument has been advanced on . both sides, and we are hpt now likely to convince anyone who baa failed to see the force of what has been written,' and they are'qujfce as unljkejly to convince us. Unless something fresh can bo advanced on (hit aubjecfc, . or a.onie new information comes from, home, I hope. ypu. ,wi|l exojmdo ; .all letters for and against. I have no ambition 1 to- continue the controversy through the columns of the newspaper, and, " if they leave me alone I'U le^vt them

alone." j^t |Ue eatne, newspaper letters arc pleasing id Udioa and people of Isistai". 1 often .gej^i letters frp/nfthoso who are much 'pleased 'wijh .my letters! I enclose one of theae, received yes.terday^ A suinjnarised column 'once a week might be retained in compliment to those qf your readers who are ■fond.jqfj.enich tlii;)g's, and if any lettfer were m £gecial excellence or of, social importance it might be put, in entire. More than this we, .have really no right to aUk, s^ith. youf Jimifce^ apace and the immense Variety of readers there are to suit. Ido hope that you "will do this, and exercise an impartial* censorship in the matter, ruthlessly excluding every fatter that is not of reaj public importance, no mutter who writes it. ; Such .purely ...personal letters as those of, "Old j Practical," "Polly Plum, "and their traiducers become should be .at once done a;vvay with. There is no chance now of these being of any use. They have deteriorated into anonymous 1 and' personal abuse on the one side, really too impertinent to be bo'rne by your "well-known correspondents,}' and they ? even if gifted, have little chance of doing good now that their very names 1 at the end of a communication deter many from reading the letter. None but a confirmed egotist writes from an^y other motive than the hope of doing good, and when sensible writers feel , that their communications are becoming 1 wearisome they gladly relinquish the pen, as'l will" willingly do, if my friends I and opponents will permit me, and as I hope ! "Old Practical " will do too.— Yjoufs, &c, Polly Plum.