ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 495, 29 November 1877, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Wc \vinli it to lie hinnU dintiiK'tly umlortttoofl tlmt we are not responsible for the ojiiiiioiio cxprenHeil byoui corres|iondentH.] THE STOCK A G SCANDAL. TO THE KDITOK OF THI2 EVICNINO MAIL. Sill,— lias it struck your throe correspondents on the stocking question that they are really doing a harm as groat a# that which they condemn, viz., giving extraordinary publicity to what they Hay should not have been published I With respect to the effusion of " Dressmaker who bathes," why I really think her tea must have bejn very strong indeed to have exercised such an undue influcnoo on her brain. She commences by calling the advertisement insulting, and ends by grossly insulting advertiser and advertiser's family. Note too the jure pt, l< To treat it with silent contempt and mark how praiseworthy si c puts it into practice. The indecent part of the advertisement has an exist,enco only in her own t a-i-xcited brain. J will not trouble you further on this subject,, but, shall, so far a<< I am concerned, " drop the stockings." But li st tin public might be led to imagine that the whole affair was a silly hoax, 1 beg to assure you, Sir, and them that the stockings (garters included) clean and whole were taken, and a dirty footless pair left. I am, tfce., Flo.

[Wo must now close the correspondence upon this subject. No possible good can be achieved by continuing tho wordy warfare.—Ed. E.M.J ♦ THE EDITTCR OF THE MALE. SUR, — My foot's upon mi nativ shecth, An' my name's "

—SIIAIKSrEER. I've bene throw menny lands, an* menny climbs ive sceno, but i never waß into a land ware they maid such a fuss ovur a pare of durty box. why shood a litrcy hiving publik be so annoid by a wild and warlike declarashun of the wose of droßtnaikurs, thare social pusishu>i"(wotever that is) an tb&re jenrul vurchoose (wich noeboddy douts), if a party shood foul herself agreevd abowt them box, surely the jenrul publik dont care a she-ps mother. (N. 8., this is subturfowg). why shood abowt a thurd of a kolum~6o" okkewpido by letters on tho Bubjekt f and why so menny threts to trod on tho stokkingliss tose of peeplo an sho up peeple an settra? Noeboddy kairr.—l am, &c., Hiram Emi-sky.