PALMERSTON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 October 1880, Page 2

PALMERSTON.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Palmerston, Oct. 16,

The weather which for some weeks past has been remarkably dry, experienced a change on Thursday night and yesterday, when we were favored with some nice showers, which have greatly improved the face of nature in the locality. The grass and young crops are now beginning to show the beneficial effeQta of the moisture, which has gladdened the hearts of our farmers, who were beginning to pull long faces and wear downcast looks at the dryness of the season, especially as it threatened to come so soon after last season's low prices. The sky is still overcast, and indicates a, further fall of rain, which we can well do with. Even the water'tanks are crying out for more, I hear we are likely to soon have a rather interesting, at the same, time unpleasant, denouement regarding Bome letters which lately appeared in the columns of the ©aily Times under the heading u Borough Council" and signed Zetus," From what has already oozed out, it appears that the letters were got into the Times by means of false pretences. The author, or authors, had not the manliness to send the letters, but got a mere youth to append his signature, asking the editor to insert them. The chief actor concerned should have been one of the last to endeavor to cast ridicule upon some of our chief citizens. He should have beep, ratber chary of rushing into fa?o}gn print, and, considering that, he \yas not in the remotest degree ooneernect in the affair, it makes hia conduct the more condemnablo, unless the fact of his being one of a set of boon companions well met can in any way be held as a palpable excuse. lam informed that the letters in question may turn out after all to be the production of a kind of joint stock company, who arrogate to themselves the position of rulers of the destiny of us Palmerstonians. I hear that Constables Green and Townsend made another haul, ar arrest, yesterday. The present one is, I believe, in connection with th© forging of the signature of one of our business men. I suppose wft shall hear more anon.