THE DIFFERENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2135, 24 October 1867, Page 3

THE DIFFERENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Sir, I quite agree with the Press when It says it has always supported Provincial institutions and popularly elected Superintendents. In this the Press speaks the truth. For it always did support provincial institutions and elected superintendents up to the time of last election, Then the Press and its friends found out all at once tlmt it would be better for the Superintendent to be nominated by the Governor, and that it was not safe for a man of high birth to trust himself to be chosen by an ignorant people, The song was completely changed now, and the Press saw that it would be far better to allow the Governor to nominate a friend of his own for the Superintendency, a gentleman who would see that the Government buildings were filled with nothing but superior beings whose ancestors could be traced clearly hack to Adam and Eve—men that we know always work hard for very low wages. Now, Sir, if I mistake not, the only difference between you and the Press is this—the Press wants a Superintendent of undoubted pedigree, nominated by the Governor; while you—a vulgar man, a Common editor—want alow, ignorant, lot of ratepayers to elect their own Superintendent. You would then disgrace him by calling him Chairman of a Board of Works, and would not allow him to establish a respectable and aristocratic Government that would be a credit and an ornament to Canterbury. Besides, you put very vulgar things in your leading articles, while the respectable and select Press puts all its vulgarity under the head of correspondence, as a place set apart for slang, and then apologises by saying that the vulgarity has come from a low, ignorant, ratepayer. Your obedient servant, HIGH BIRTH.