ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Ota go "Witness,
Sir, — As one of the first settlers, allow me to answer your " Country Settler's" letter of last week on the subject of the complimentary address to the Rev. C. Creed, signed by Mr. Garrick, which appeared in a late number of the Witness. The impression intended to be conveyed by the production is identical with that contained in a letter which lately appeared in the Lyttelton Times from a correspondent in Otago — viz., that until a late arrival here we have been without an Ecclesiastical Establishment ; the promis.es held out by the Otago Scheme were a humbug ; and had it not been for the kindness of the Rev. C. Creed in coming over at any time to christen our children, &c, this community would ha^ c been seriously inconvenienced. Suffice it to assure your correspondent that we have enjoyed the present powerful ministry from the ou'^Pt, and to take the word of one well versed in the early history of the settlement, that the eccentric proceedings of two or three erratic individuals during the first few months of their residence had better been allowed to rest; they were sufficiently contemptible to be forgotten, when suddenly revived by the blast of Mr. Garriek's penny whistle
A DISCII'LIXAHIAN,
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Otago Witness, Issue 50, 1 May 1852, Page 2
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