CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10423, 27 July 1895, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Dauber, who prefaee3 a letter on the High Schools Board of Goyernors with'the quotation from Bi-et Harte'a " Heathen Chinee," " But for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinee is peculiar," and adds " and not oaly he, but other people in oar midst," protests strongly ogainss Mr Fish's Rciion as a metnbsr of the board in connection with the paiutiug of the Girls' High School " Dauber" considers it high time tor somtose to " bell the cat," and cays that the self-praisa and adulation which wero expressed at the boaid's meaung i 3 charaeterhtic of Mr fish and his methods, and the manner iv which he spoka of other tradesmen was sickening to one who has watched his career.

Bulldog wonders that m aU the dsbata now going on on the subject uo one on either side of the House pays the leasS attention to the (Wf that the Sufoga Bank fandc .„ spent a £ady the only question that is cow being debated is the question wnather or not it w M right to »» they could be spent twica over. The only aw that ca-i be called auaey is fh P Xf r Imperial debentures, £324,000. J& S^J of the people's money there is nothirJ no + show for it bat the general indo^fc of ft eotony. Would it aot be as Kell if ,nm c leading cities w« to caU 1 %^,^5 «to consider &c question whether t!i P • B S not at ouc ß repay the mw»f rf ♦ftysn^d in the Savings Bank, ev^thl S«S?SfS

stretch.Us credit t<j its utmost limit fco do (to, aisd make such provision that for the fntraro uo politician should ba able to touch the Post Office Savinga B&nl; funds, aa it is,quite evident that poliliciims cannot be trusted with the investment of them.

W writes regarding the appeal by " Subscriber " in Sttvird-'y's issue, and quotes the following f.om Hatp'ar's Weekly :—» Some time ago the CUrlyle inftmorial fund had reached a totelof £1722, enough to ensure the purchase of the bouse in Chel^M, which will be bought this month (Jane 1895) and opened to the public as a memorial museum." There is hardly any other hotna of aa author, except Abbotsford, that has entered so largely into hteratare. No one who reads Carlyle's autobiography as divulged by Mr. Froude can ever forget Oarlyle HoiVss.

A Victoeian Mines of '52 says ib is impossible not to, award the very highest praise to s.l concerned in laist night's meeting, from the chairman-to the last speaker. Yet methinks there was wanting a certain element of practical knowledge which may, bring to naught the very best made plans. Why not consult such a man as Mr John Mouat? He knows all about miniag, and from an intimate personal acquaintance ot many years' standing I know that his lr.nd heart and serious knowledge will ever be at tbe service of the poor and distressed. Justice, writes a Btrong Utter on, what he considers the very great injustice that has besn done to Constable Davis. He says—" Br Jeffcoat and his friends, with the Women's 'Jrancbiie League, who so generously snbBcnbed to fee Mr Solomon to prosecute Conesable Davis for defending himself from a drunken, harlot, ought, to congratulate themse.ves they h&ve' succeeded in' taking the bread out of the mouths of a man and » young wife and two children." Commenting oa the straightforward evidence (•I the constable that the woman caught hold of him in au indecent manner and wanted him to go home'with her, be ask?, what man going home to his young wiee as the constable was would not have raised his knee, his hands being fall, and pushed, the wretched woman into the gutter. As Mr Hanlon stated, the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution was conflicting, and if the woman who was alleged tohsve been assaulted was too drunk to give evidence in the ease .wbjr was her companion not called? ■•' Justice" has heard so many people protesting against what they consider the unjust manner ia which the constable has been heated that he hope 3 they will rally round Mm and see justice done.; '■;;•■ . '. : '■"'..

Oka of. Many reviews the strictures of Mr W. H. Bishop, S.M. of Christchurch, on the young men who informed upon the publicans, and says it seems clear to him " the head of the preseat' Government is responsible for the utterances we gee nearly every time'this class of case is'tried;"/. . . Thepolicegetao encouragement or, reward if they succeed in getting convictions—rather the reverse. ; Nat until the department encourage their men in the discharge of their duties can ,we, expect the police to get convictions for •breaches of the Licensing Act. It is a well-knoym fact if a police officer shows himself impartial' and does prosecute he is laughed and jeered at by other policemen as a probibitiohist and a fool (why, we can only surmise).: Airhonbur'to those six youiig men who prosecuted, heedless of the jeers arid snters of pubiicansand the intimidation of. the bench. What do all these repeaWS lectures to informers mean ? Somebody must inform. If the police won't, private individuals must." -•■'•'

Equity write 3, with reference to the removal of sleepers from off tie railway line near Seacliff on "the 13th April, fully endorsing "Justice's "letter iv our issue of the 20fch inst., and he'thinks the^passengers ought to reward the joaiig men'for removing theY sleepers off the liae. -What would the consequences hfive been bad'the sleepers not' been removed ? There would probably have been loss of life, carriages would have, been brokea, and the cost to the Govemmeut would'have been some hundreds of pounds. At present theybun? men have.received no reward. Surely, "Equity?'.says, the Government or passengers ought to do something for them. ;, -..,;'■".