CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4541, 3 December 1889, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I see by last night's paper that Messrs Williams, Meek, and Brownleo have requested the Waiareka Romd Board to open the road through the Education Reserve. They accuse ma of ploughing up the survey pegß. Sorely they must be new chums in the valley, or else they have a grudge against Carson. If Mr Williams would write to Mr Robert Meek, he could tell them who ploughed up the pegs. lam only about 10 years on the reserve and everything was then as It is now, but looking better, i.e., no mortgage, no rent due, and the lease is paid for.— I am, etc. James Carson, , Weston.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —A correspondent in your Issue of the 26'.h instant, Bigning himself "Backbone," indulges in a tissue of false statei meats extending over a quarter of a column of yoar space. He vainly endeavors to point out that Mr Dunn, as Mayor, has been a failure. He says, Bearch the records and minutes of the ; Council and you will find that, from , beginning to end, he has proved himself a [ weak and irascible obstructionist. If , your correspondent will take the trouble to search the records and minutes himself, he will find that Mr Dunn was not the obstructionist. He had to contend with a : great amount of opposition from the • Councillors, who, like " Backbone," 1 wanted everything their own way, and like him, since the election, will be disappointed ; for he says in his letter that a majority of the ratepayers were sensible of Mr Dann being a failure, and had determined to place Mr Davidson at the 1 head of the poll, thus relegating Mr Dann to the shades of defeat. Again your } correspondent haß not spoken the truth, unless he considers himself the majority , of ratepayers, and I see by the result i of the election that he iB not the majority. If the truth were known, I don't suppose he had a vote at all. i I shall con3ider him one of the informals, 1 of which there were three, and relegate I him to the obscurity from whence he 1 sprang, unwept, unhonored, etc. He farther charges Mr Dunn with a deficiency of common sense and gentlemanliuess. I . do not wonder at this. Mr Dann should j have known better than to send in his account jast before the election, no matter how long it might have been standing. Bills in any form are not pleasant things . to look at, and are not likely to induoe a 1 man of " Backbone's " type to vote for the sender, provided always that he had a vote ' to record. But, from my knowledge of t Mr Dann, he Is not the man to take these ' small items into consideration, or he might havo been spared the bitler siroaam con- ■ tained in your correspondent's letter. I I strongly advise "Backbone" to take a back seat, and not be in such a hurry to , vent his spleen in the public Press. If he , were not in favor of Mr Daon, he could at i least have let him have fair play. Tour . correspondent signs himself "Backbone." . I do not know who he is, and I do not t wish to know; but I suppose he is only a bone dead to the meaning of fair play and 1 void of that commodity he so loudly accuses Mr Dunn with being deficient of—- ' common eenae.—l am, etc., ' An Outsider. Pukeurl, November 29, 1889.