Clutha Correspondence. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2205, 4 June 1896, Page 31

Clutha Correspondence. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—There is an old saying and a very true one, that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." Warepa, previous to the appearance in your columns of the correspondent who pens the Olutha " letter, moved along in a quiet, ! contented manner. Now all that appears to be | altering. If a settler sends his child to a certain school, it must be made a subject worthy of recording in a four-inch note of your valuable space. The climax is reached in the note "Political. No one in this constituency pays the slightest heed to the abortive attempt on the part of a delicensed publican and his jumping Jack factotum to create a noise at Mr Mackenzie's Clinton meeting. The district knows that meeting was a success, and when afterwards the factotum was delegating a mission to one of the Mataura trio in a railway carriage, he " vapoured " sufficiently loudly to let every passenger learn his authority and the support of licensed victuallers and others that was to be accorded. Now to read the airy " political ! note" one would suppose that it came from the pen of some independent, disinterested correspondent, instead or from one who had a purpose to serve in adopting the tone which pervades this note. —l am, &q., Clutha, May 30. Christian.