THE WAIPAWA CORRESPONDENT OF THE HERALD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3510, 7 October 1882, Page 3

THE WAIPAWA CORRESPONDENT OF THE HERALD.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegeaph.] Sib,—How a journal professing one particle of self-respect can publish such infamous trash, twaddle, and bunkum as that which appears in its columns from time to time from the Waipawa correspondent myself among others cannot comprehend. There is one thing certain, that the cant and malicious scandal interspersed throughout the senseless effusions have a tendency to set claos against class and neighbor against neighbor, thus creating strife and discord where otherwise peace and goodwill should exist. The last piece of nonsensical compost disfiguring nearly a column and a half on a back sheet of the Hawke's Bay Herald on the third day of October is not only "V" in keeping with the former productions but also contains a tisßue of falsehoods. After penning an inaccurate and unreadable report about laying tbe foundation Btone for the new Masonic Hall at Waipawa he merges off into a subject about swine, congenial to such a nature to herd with. But even with a subject bo natural he cannot finish up without a disfigure-

ment about the Mm, a part and parcel of the said swine. According to the account given, in the back sheet this ham was hanging up in the kitchen of an hotel. Thither this correspondent must have got beer on the brain, there being a number of visitors in town from the country making merry on that day. Free drinks were in vogue—at all times so welcome to his thirsty soul. It may have been in this hotel, or he may have toddled over to tbe office, and in this happy state penned the paragraph wherein he takes an oath about a certain piece of paper with an order written on it for bottled beer. It would appear that this individual did once upon a time take a most sacred oath and break it, therefore a few oaths more or less are of no consequence to him, so that he makes a hit or gives bis neighbor a dig in the ribs. In conclusion lam prepared to prove that the oath about the paper being handed round, and finding its way into the cavity of the stone, is a false oath, for with others I was upon the ground at 8 a.m., and remained there durine; the whole time until the foundation stone was laid. An order was sent for beer and refreshments for the workmen and visitors giving a helping hand in the preparations, but this occurred at least two hours before the stone was laid, therefore there cannot be the slightest reliance placed upon the fuddling falsehood printed on that back sheet. —I am, &c, John Hunter, Contractor. Waipawa, October 4 1882.