ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 965, 23 May 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. Sip.,—l observe in your impression of the SOfcli inst. a letter signed " Timon" in which the writer comes nobly forth as the champion of " our most respectable resident," who has recently been the subject of the School Committee's persecutions. He introduces his remarks with a somewhat ribald joke about the ' happy family,' and evinces his canine tendencies by the admission tlyit he engages in four public : growls per- week. He then commences ari espose of one of our most respectable residents, by stating that, in defiance of I the School Committee, and the Magistrate's order, the child in question had been . sent to the Kyehurn school. " Timon" then goes or to say that his hero is so much respected that several parties, have taken upon the cudgels in ; hia defence, they having sent complaints to the Committee such as he has not skill to criticise. In these latter statements ■I heartily sympathise with " Timon," and 'in the face of recent events they require :no comment. But when, in the splendid peroration with which he Qonoludes, he refers to the something Committee, I jean almost imagine that he was ojiginaliy a member 'of the same, and i was politely asked to resign, the climax of the effusion is reached, however, when he wishes its members " in a-more appreciative place." I have heard Of an : appreciative audience or person, but it is ; difficult to see the - point of his English in the above phrase. It might have been : better if ;compulsory ; education had obtained during, the writer's youth. One more remark is worthy of notice, namely, " The something ' oommittee meets occasionally,., and, passes .some : absurd and others second rate,, to wit, onj. , of their great guns had the. • write that our respected warder, &c." It ! may .be dear to " Timon," but an English 'reading public:can never understand how ! what one of their great guns wrote could :of necessity be - an example of the resolu- . tions of the something committee. Looking at-the whole letter, I; think-that under a pretence of- defending'"our most respectable the writer has done his best" by : uncalled-for remarks to damage' the jposition of his prestige,—l am,"&c., ... , ..." Xerxes.