"BANKERS" ABSURDITIES

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 73

"BANKERS" ABSURDITIES

TO TH/i EDITOP^

Sir, — I see ''A Ba^kcis" is still sending you his ornate, de* orated, enbeihshed, fioTicl, and flcwory effusions, which must be interesting to some, as jou continue to j/übVh tlif-m ; to many otho-3 they vie naa=i.o;;s Ho has hsd a oomp'ete mnuigs for foa- month-*, no one criticising his braiu-prcduct. except Mr Sitrwart's repioof on Banker's "^C-iioiso pr.d envenomed hate." But las l?st c/Toit, "The scenery of the Depths,"' is so outrageously untruo that I am compelled ;o ahovv him, as on former occasions, his want of prob.ty. Ho says, "It is stated (winch ho cnclo-.scs by his subsequent language) "that if a laigo holo I>3 cut in the huli of a shi|s and y square of stior.g plate glass be securely filteJ there, the bottom of tho sea. will be plainly discernible at a very considerable depth." He must know that no ship-owner would allow a, hole to be cut m tho bottom of his ship, neither would he allow his ship to be sent to fca wilhout c&igo or ballast; which - anyone would imrgine pievcnt the 6-:ght-"ccr from viewing the worders depicted by "A Banker," whether "gorgeous, repulsive, eiitrancuigly beauhfu 1 , abherient, changing panorama, gardem and forests, and precipices." "Not a.t all, you have oi v ly to through a few ci=ks ot meL-chaudise, or peihaps 10DC bal?s of cotton or -wool aad other goods corveniently placed to fill up tho hull! Bud this is nothing to what '"A Banker" tells us can be dene. If you ha\e sufficient fai^h, you cr,n remove mountains, da. 1: dcad:y poison, and no harm v ill befall you The wintered bones will ren.ain at Lhc bottom of Clio sea, which can be clearly sc-eu. aithcush they have been dismtregiated into millions of atoms; but yet when tha cireat'i (why dread?) tiumpet is blown by what he ca'ls an a.rehange!, they vn 1 ! all sfand that is, t"e disinxre«r?ted whitened benes niU stanc I—befoie1 — befoie t u c Great T'-rono (why White?) 1 o n.s^cr rail give an aceovr.l r.f ttioir deed?' As usual this contemptuous language :s ihe preas to his continued arrogant statement of the dogma of an atonement — a questionable afccnemsr.t. — I ?m, etc , William Eae,

Greymouth, January, 1904.

A considerable quantity of the old tram rails -which have been lifted to mako way for th-e electric tiamwr-y in YVclimgton has already been eclcl, for the most part to sawim'lers in the country districts. It ie likc-ly (says the New Zealand Times) that come, at least, of the old passenger cars will be used in the new service as "trailers" altacbed to tho elcotrio cars wh-eneA-or such a ooiu'se is neeo-=ary to cope w.th heavy t~affic

Operations at th-e State cool mines in We^tland are being carri-ed out on an extensive- scale. The colliery at Ss-d-donvllle is putting out about 1000 tons p. week. The wee-kV output from the Point Elizabeth mine is about 2000 tons, and will be increased 50 per cent, as soon as the railway into Greymouth has been completed. The Mines Department haa sold 1000 tone of coal from S&ddorivilk. to iho Railway Department, and also a considerable quantity to the Union Ster.rn Ship Company. The coal is pronounced by experts to be a first-cla-=s article for marine and domestic pur-por-ea.