BLOWING HIS OWN TRUMPET.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3139, 20 July 1881, Page 2

BLOWING HIS OWN TRUMPET.

[To the Editor of the D_lL_ Teleguuph.] Ste, —I submit to you for publication the enclosed extract from a recent issue of the Wairoa Guardian. I addressed it firstly, with a few additional comments, to the Herald, because the correspondence alluded to bad been published in that journal. I observe from this morning's issue of the Herald that the editor refuses to publish it, on tbe ground that it would be "a breach of journalistic usage." If there is any such t sage sheltering an anonymous writer then I think it would be more honoured in the breach than in the observance. The extract referred to was written by Mr M'Dougall, our noted town councillor, in his 3apacity of Napier correspondent to the Wairoa Guardian. I offer no further comments, leaving the public to judge as to the good taste displayed by that individual in his references to a controversy in which he himself had been engaged.—l am, &c, Henkt Ellison. , Napier, July 20, 1881.

(Extract from Wairoa Guardian.) Speaking of newspaper letters reminds me that a very keen and earnest debate has appeared in the Herald lately between Mr Tanner, member of the hchoel Board, aud Mr M'Dougall, member of the Napier School Committee, It arose

through Mr Tanner writing in on sure of the committee for refusing to allow tbe Bible in Schools Association to distribute „rculars in the schools, and crediting Mr M'Dougall with being tbe leader and mouthpiece of tbe committee. A fair " set to" ensued, in which, ac* cording to the general verdict, Mr Tanner was thoroughly overmastered ; his opponent, sometimes known as the " complete letter writer," carrying too many guns.