THE WAIMEA DINNER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 15, 18 January 1868, Page 2

THE WAIMEA DINNER.

To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — As Captaiu Blundell still insists on shirking any satisfactory reply to my simple statements,' by availing himself of the flimsiest of pretences, I wiil plainly ask him how he can justify the omission from the invitation list for the Waimea Dinner of the two Honorary Captains of the Nelson Rifle Cadets, when the Lieutenants of the other adult companies were invited, of whom, consistently with his assumed intimate acquaintance with military usages, he ought to be aware that the former take precedence. Let him not shelter himself under the shallow pretext that no Cadet Officers were invited, since one Cadet Officer at least received an invitation, nor under the still more miserable one of want of room, for I have the best authority for stating that several guests wire present on the occasion, wholly unconnected with the Volunteer Corps. I have now fairly stated my case , and I call on Captain Blundell either to account fur this omission, if he can, or else, to borrow his own rather gratuitous commendation to me, 'in a manly, honest, straightforward manner ' admit that he has erred, not only by departing from the most ordinary rule of military etiquette, but by offering a most uncalled for insult to the esprit de corps of the whole Volunteer Force. 1 am &c., Volunteer. Motueka, January 16, 1868. To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir— On reading your paper of the 15th inst. I was surprised to see in the r port of the Board of Works that a majority of the elect of the people had decided to publish this year's assessment in two newspapers — the Colonist and the Examiner. Why the readers of the Mail should be ignored in this matter is a mystery to me, only I should like to know bj what mode of inductive reasoning they arrived at so unfair a decision, as to deprive a large portion of the ratepayers ot the opportunity of seeing the amount they have to pay this year, unless they subject themselves to the alternative of paying sixpence for one of these two papers, or making a visit to the office of the Board of Works. I have no objection to its being published in the other two newspapers, but I object to the members of the Board being partial in the distribution of our money: they can do as they like with their own. This little bit of favoritism is the more remarkable oh acount of the attention you have paid to the public interest by reporting regularly the proceedings of the Board of Works, when your contemporaries did not deem it worth their while to do so. Hoping you will explain the reason why, I am, &c, A Ratepayer. Nelson, January 17, 1868. —^— — ■ 'i ' — —~- — — —^— ■ — — — ,