FINANCIAL REFORM LEAGUE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10482, 20 October 1894, Page 3

FINANCIAL REFORM LEAGUE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,—Recently I throw out tho suggestion that State bankista and others interested in the improvement of our finances and currency should meet and form a Financial Reform League. If one or two experts from other bodies, ouch as the Chamber of Commerce and the various Political Associations, were appointed to act as delegates the larger and more national monetary questions might, bo reserved for the League’s consideration. It could not have been the above proposal, and, as he’spent more time than I did on the switchback it could hardly have been my harmless, if “ silly,” joke that caused the hysterics of one amateur literary pugilist, who has yet to learn that the fighter who hides his face in tho cloak of anonymity can never hit “ straight from the shoulder.” It must, therefore, have been some other part of tho condemned letter which put him out, and bis shoulder afterwards. I have, in the many letters you have kindly published for me, never wantonly attacked any other correspondent in the first instance; and it is to be hoped that a little newspaper boxing, if necessary, will be conducted in accordance with the best traditions of tho “ ring,” and without spoiling our tempers. Trusting that some of your contributors will annroveof the league idea—l am, &0., J. H. NEWLTN.