ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 769, 28 September 1878, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

1 A DISCLAIMER. ro THE KDITOP. OF THK EVEN"I>"O 3?AIt. j Slit-, —Referring to an article in your ; issue of yesterday's date re the late effigy j burning case in Waiinate, as you therein j allude to a certain hotelkeeper who had j been reported by Sergeant Routledge for breaches of the Licensing Act, and which pbtiuly point to me as the individual meant, I now beg most emphatically to disclaim having taken (as your article asserts) any part in the getting up or conducting of said effigy burning. You vriU hear further from rne on this subject itr;he course of a few days.—l am, etc., H. ML&OLETON, Royal Hotel, Waimato. Waimate, Sept. 2G, 1878. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVEKIKO MAIL. Sir, I see by the advertisements that have appeared in the Mail lately that tenders are being called for the erection of a theatre, and steps are fceinS taken to build a Corn Exchange ; also, V> make other necessary improvements- °-s regards public building 3 and works. Thieis a sign that the people of Outnr.ru ar>alive to the requirements of this rising town. One thing has apparently beeu overlooked, which is an Arcade. I hav? no doubts about the benefits that- wonl'i be derived both by the public and t' ? parties interested. —I am, &c., Oatnaru, Sept. 26. Scogestiox.