THE STEVENSON MEETING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10761, 27 March 1897, Page 3

THE STEVENSON MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —P&ssiog Notes on the subject leave your readers in doubt whether that übiquitarian "Civis" drew the line at the Stevenson memorial meeting. If he was there he was too polite to notice two important mistakes made by i speakers. I am not. Politeness has a poor \ show when yoar na'ional seusitiveness is being ! touched up I don't mean to say that every- i thing said at the meeting was otherwise perfect, j but my object at present is only to settle an international difference—that is all. First, then, Mr Scobie Mackenzie referred, to his countrymen as "Scotchmen." Now the letter "h" has no legitimate place in the word. I know it is often there, and how it comes there it would be difficult !.o say, but it has no business there. My own surmise is that it is one of the mauy that must have been dropped by English folk in their little excursions across the Border, when,* as frequently happened, they fouud they had to return home again in great haste, and without their impedimenta. What more natural and characteristic in those times than for Scotsmen to gather up and keep all property so come by ? But it is time chat at least th*t "h" was raturned to those it origin»lly belonged to. Relations between the English and Scots are not now strained as they sometimes used to be, and it would only be a. graceful act on the part of every Scot to return the missing letter every time he finds it—especially as its misplacement has apparently ever since been to his English friends a cause of great uncertainty in its use. The other miKtake I refer to was that of a spenker who made it clear that he was not a Scotsman, and probably arose from an innate and kindly deaire to pay my countrymen a delicate though antiquated compliment by implication—even at the expense of his own reputation as a man of letters. It is otherwise difficult to underct&nd how he cnme to pronounce the word " idyl" as if it rhymed with " fiddle."—l am &c., March 22._^ .

Stubborn as a mule, and bo is your cough. One day you fancy it's better; the next it's just as bad. Some think coughs are best left alone, but it often proves a fatal mistake. A congh should never be allowed to get a firm hold of the system. Bonnington's Carrageen, or Irish Moss, is the surest remedy, and should I be taken without delay.—Advt. — In moving about from one place to another the people of England spend about £150,000 a day. | GOUT. I To promptly cure gout, sufferers should elimi- | nate the urates from the system by taking' Bishop's Citrate of Lithia. It is strongly rec«m- I mended by the Lancet and "British 'Medical ) Journal." Of all chemists, i- *•»<» uiae». 1