ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 901, 25 July 1879, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible fur opinions expressed hy correspondents.] (to the editor of the DUNSTAN' times ) Sir : —ln the issue of the Tuapeka Times of the 19th instant, umlcrthe heading, “Up the road, notes Uyonrtrivelhng reporter, Alexandra;” 1 note some blunders that incline me to believe that the notes are not genuine, at all events thev have not the genuine ring about them. In fact, the whole thing is a . hotch-potch, and the only conclusion that 1 I can come to is that, the worthy traveller must have been affected will the snow, which has abounded of late, or perhaps, with something a trill; stronger Host liyan so gracefully dispenses. 1 will give you a few specimens of this veracious traveller. In the first place he says :■ The selected I site for the LI(3,000 bridge is some thirty yards further up the river than the former badge was the contractors have eighteen men engaged facing and ijuarrying stone, and believe they have suflioiont stone at hand to bring the foundation up to the water level ; —that the foundation will he .lift, by 22ft. at the base, and that the river is at present as low as in summer.” Now I can. not but characterize lids as awful rubbish. ; The facts are patent to every one ; there [ was never a bridge within seven miles of the | selected site of the Lift,DUO .structure —as to j the contractors believing to have suliloient j stone at hand to bring the foundation up to i wator-maik, considering that for every 3ft j in height, over 130 cubic yards of stone have . to be prepared, and at the very lowest coini putalion, between the foundation and the j water level it, will bo at least nine feet, thus 1 41)0 yards will be required ; 'ho statement is worthless. Then as to the river being as low as in summer, this only stamps “Traveller” as an idiot, as, who in all their experience ever heard of the Molynenx being low in summer. Further on in the communication—" Weston and party is connected avilh the old party, who worked the Conroy’s leef.” Who Weston is, or was, no one here knows, and then again, hy way of conclusion lie says ; “ The road between Coal Creek and the Tuapeka boundary is in very bad order ” As Coal creek is within the Tuapeka County some enlightentment is necessary as to which of the boundaries is meant? I would not, Sir, have troubled you with this, as the whole rigmarole, whether true or not makes but little difference, hut by the way of a reminder to “Traveller” that, when lie puts pen to paper again, he may as well adhere to the truth, and not make a fool, either of himself, or of the people and places lie writes about, or of the journal he writes to.—Yours, etc., (Jeserner. Alexandra, July 22, 1879. FARM KINS’ COLUMN.