The Fatal Fight.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 195, 24 August 1901, Page 3

The Fatal Fight.

, (To the Editor of the Times,) Sik,—l have read the correspondence on the above subject with interest, and am glad to find that your object in publishing the report was to secure the censure of the public for such degrading “ sport ” (?) May the publication of such news always have that effect. “ Topthorn,’’ in his letter, seems to make a remarkable admission when he finds tho opposite of the sporting column in news of the churches, which, according to him, sporting men seldom read. I should not have thought of joining in the controversy at this stage were it not for this gratuitous sneer which drags in the churches. —I am, etc., B. F. Rotiiwkll.

To the Editor of the Times. Sit!,—Mr Peckover is very good at lecturing others, but ho evaded the point raised by me. How came he to rend the fatal tight ? Ido not know whether it matters to him or to anyone else whether I sign my name. If I did so I might be told that 1 am not class enough to enter into the discussion of a moral question.—l am, etc., Reader.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Siu. —I think that Mr Peckover is entitled to the warm thanks of the community of Gisborne for the able manner in which he has called attention to tho weakness of colonials and of colonial papers. It is nothing but sport, sport, sport. Every little tinpot race meeting throughout the colony is reported by telegraph. Just now a famous temperance lecturer is going the rounds of the colony. One hardly sees a line about him, but reports are given of races a hundred miles from Gisborne. —I am, etc., F. R, E.