SOLAR SPOTS.
To the Editor of the Otaoo Daily Timks,
Sir—May I ask what party your morning contemporary represent!* '/ Looking at the heading of tho telegraphic news, I notice tho heading " Lambert Outgeneralled ! Hauhaus successful again !" Is the liditor a Hauhnu sympathiser? or does he think his readers are those fanatics 1 In tho hysterical leader of the same day appears a statement intended to convey the impression that the Government has L15G3,879 at its disposal available f"r defence purposes. I cannot characterise this statement properly without using offensive language, so I shall forbear. The amount actually availablo for defence I find by tho Appropriaion Act, 1803, to be Ll3O/J3B 'M (id. The Editor concludes with a reference to tho personal feelings of " disappointed provincialists," and an appeal to them to "forget their private Bpito and animosity." I should like you to explain this very remarkable utterance. What docs it moan I I have always understood hitherto, that your contemporary was the organ of the despairing provincial party. There cannot bo a doubt, from the strong sympathies displayed towards the enemy, that tho proper place of the Editor is with To Kooti, if he be alive, or to supply his place if dead ; and that he would really be less mischievously employed in leading the; Hauha\i3 than endeavouring to mislead public opinion in Dunedin. — 1 am, &c., Vkiutas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2129, 1 December 1868, Page 3
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