Correspondence.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7742, 13 May 1887, Page 3

Correspondence.

— • r-r— - • ■ Tho Editor docs not hold himself responsible for opinions oxpressed' by correspondents. , ANOTHER RAILWAY MANAGER. Silt,— The subjoined letters indicate an .amount of cleverness of stupidity (I don't know which} that.batfles me. ; Smrely, the man is poking fun at me? 'He can't be such an owl as to intend his reply seriously. His evasion of .', my query is too ingenionsly. addle-pated.to be a misconception. He thinks he has achieved a triumph of diplomacy.— l am, &c., . . . _\V. -If-. < Hqwlett. . , Pahiatua, May 2,1887. Tho Manager Manawatu Railway Company. Dear Sir,— On Wednesday last ■ about 11 n.m. I asked the station-master at Lonßburn whether your guards were under instructions to give their name to any possensor asking for same. The station-master replied in the negative. Will you inform' me any of your employees are' under 'such instructions ?— lmn, &c., W. F. H6wlbtx, Mr W. F. Howlott. Pahiatna. : . | Dear Sir,— ln reply to your noto/of tho 3rd May, theservonts of thecompanyaro not under nstructions to refuse to give tH?i_r names when called upon in reasonable circumstances. The station-master at Longburn states he did not reply to your question relative to this, that they were^Yours^ truly; Jab. Wallace, General^ Manager Wellington and Manawatu ßailway Cpmpjvny.V ■■>'