EVOLUTION THOERY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 369, 27 June 1884, Page 2

EVOLUTION THOERY.

DARKNESS IN HOKONUI.

" to"the editor.

■ Sir,— When I reflectjugotf the flourish of trumpets with ' which " S6u|ii|rn Cross " heralded the introduction of his first letters into the'ziE^rsiGN^nd read in this day's issue his second letter, or in military parlance hia ignominious-flight from the., field of contro-

versy, and with what dishonor he strove to cov.er ius ret^eat u l am more than ever convinced titat from tne'sublime to the distance is immeasurably small. " Facilis est dqscensus Averni." — Virg. Aeneid. The fall or Lucifer was not more precipitate. I really thought he had smothered your Otama correspondent ; but " Magna est veritas et prAftvalebit.", Fair, honest,.^ruj;hf«J criticism is'the same to literature that^inMion is to the waters of the ocean or salt to meat — thej preserve them* 1 and. keep them in a health j state ; but the contemptible scribbler who ; fta^ the'audacity itorukhintd'prE®; and under a pseudonym make accusation both mean " and lying against a public writer for the express purpose of hurting his literary gharacter is.fto man, nor fit to herd with mankind. ''"'Southern Cross " knows as much about the Theory o.£ Evolution as it does about him. All he desired was to fling mud. "He laughs best who laughs last," and "J. M." has certainly had the last laugh. " Southern Cross " was eager to make us belieye, that no good could come out of Otama. (After all Meres, is ajligjitjia jtM |jtama, but the impenetrable darkness of Hokonui could not corojfrfiheiidrit. But come now, man of mysteries ! All your shuffling will not sexve you, come "up to the scratch and "toe the i ltne v .-;;.^u made.oharges- agakwW " J. M." of " O fcama" of <bting- ■■ only l a ' 'SbW j pagiarist, a. writer of stolen articles the property of Mir Dawson. You threw discredit on his edwc»■tion.'> -Prove ;iybaflrrsfa*em&'t^r|g manfully the avu?ndejwiwr^^hy Eulogising. If ..'•'Hokonui " had read.Arlstotle, " Be HumanaNatUra-," -"Demdcrltus^ Mcr?!^, most o£ whoni aived.i .nearly -1 000, -yens- BC, he= W^d ¥^,fei o y ifll .%f,%,Theoiy of Kvolration is applicable to every specimen, of anli^ qua-rian ■thlinble'-nggirig-froifi Alsordcea turnip dowji_io a Hokoaui constellation, and that is fhe very^ve^y lowest f pwimen of the anthr6poid'buff6oii; J I §cc yb\ir c^ifeesp indent will not take -kindly to navo ins •'enealo'T:' traqedjto the ape. 0 . { . rntT ° F.M., A Chip off" the Old Block. . O r tama, June 24 ? 1884. ' [We have' e'xeised" a' portion ck 4>ur correspondentfs letter, which came into our hands :'^fActime, £ when.oux n^jailable space waa nearly exhausted. — ISd. ENSIGN.]