ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 494, 28 November 1877, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

We wish it to be most distinctly understood that we are not resjioiisiblc for the opinions expressed t-voui correspondents.]

A DENIAL.

TO THE EDITOK OF THE EVESINO- MAIL.

Sir, reading your worthy pnper last night I was grieved and shocked to see in your advertising columns a most uncouth and insulting advertisement re the theft of stockings and garters said to have taken place at the baths last Saturday. The advertisement itself is of so grossly an indecent character as to render silent contempt the fittest retaliation—only the inserter, iu her low and vulgar conceit, could not apprtciate such ladylike forbearance. As her name, position, i;c. are well-known to the dressmakers who batiie, it will be needless for me to poiut out the iufeasibiiity of the advertiser having in her possession stockings worth stealing. An regards cleanliness, would, it not.be well for the advertiser to look well at. home before passing such a sweeping condemnation on a class of young ladies, all of whom are her superiors in education, social position, i and circumstances.—l am, &c,

A Dressmaker who Bathes,

AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS PLACE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL. Sib,— I am not poing to ask the Council as a favour to cause a light to be placed oh the road being made to the Drill-shed ; but I want'to know where are the various Municipal officers with big salaries that such a gross neglect of duty on the part of some of them is tolerated ? There is sufficient cause to fill a small hospital at.present existing there, and I suppose when the effect comes something will be done.—l am, &c, --■ ■- Anti-Suicidalist.