THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —He was a stranger, and ye shut him out; he was a visitor to your Empire City passing through last Snnday, and making his way in tho rain from bis hotel to the Metro* politan Free Public Library, he found the institution was not oonseorated to Sunday uses, and therefore not open to be desecrated by satisfying his yearning after Home news. Hetherefore exeoratedload and long the shallow bigotry of this one horse town, and those implicated in and responsible fcr such unotthodox procedure. Weary and wet and cold he wandered away to the ' Duke,' and there found the rest and 'quiet,' but not the home news, for which he hungered, and as he thought of the morning train to the Walrarapa, which closed the avenues of his yearning for the Dunedin papers, he agreed that on some occasions there is some credit in being j lly, as did Mark Tapluy,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 39
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158THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 39
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