CORRESPONDENCE.

Northern Advocate, 10 March 1888, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We are not responsible for the opinions oj correspondents. Writers must give t/ieirnames, not for publication, but as a guarantee ofgooa faith.) ' (To the Editor.) Sib, — Of all the pests that trouble human society the half-educated, ranting hypocrite is the most noxious and repulsive. His very existence is the embodiment of a huge petrified die, from which it is utterly impossible to extract the smallest particle of genuine unadulterated truth. An unique, well-preserved specimen of that genus can now be inspected in the sanctum of the Auckland " Leader," and since he has made up his mind (small as it is) to force me to advertise his silly, blatant rag, 1 must, in charity, thus comply with his wayward humour. He has again deliberately travelled out of his way to attack me witho-it any fresh provocation, and charges me with being a partisan of the liquor traffic, well knowing that thereby he status a direct falsehood. He foolishly calls on the Government to remove me from office, when a schoolboy could tell him that the Government have nothing to do with County officials. Let him appeal to the Whangarei Councillors, most of whom know me far better than he does, and see what reply he can obtain. He especially wants my removal before the next local o;ption, quite ignorant again of the fact that a Be turning officer has nothing to do with local o\ )tion. He really must be a bright character fa t an editor. If lam a partisan I must have surely tried to influence votes. Can he produce one instance thereof, or hunt out one occassioai on which I evinced the least shade of a partial bias? But what does a common slanderer want of facts; they form no portion of his raw materials. Before he visits other camps lei him search out more among his own friends, and especially study the pure character and lofty moral standard of that hoary saint (?) who writes the Waipu correspondence, for the bogus • Own 'of the "Leader." When he expends the due amount of admiration in that quarter, he cau be abundantly supplied with other peculiar specimens highly characteristic of their order and well worthy of their petrified oracle. Surely this notice ought to satisfy him for a month or two, and if it does not secure him new subscribeers I cannot really help in that line. — Yours, &c. D. McLeod. Whangarei Heads, March 2 1888.