ARCADES AMBO.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 407, 12 March 1879, Page 3

ARCADES AMBO.

The Keio Zealand Sun, under the above heading says •—The Ashburton JUeho is sore with old Joe Ivess, of the Mail, and goes for him as follows: “ Joseph Ivess is perfectly at liberty, so far as we are concerned, to fight his own battles, and Mr Janies Wilkie wants no help at our hands against a puny opponent like the one who, in a private letter to the Chairman ot the Board, made a cowaidly attempt to injure the overseer. But when Ivess with no knowledge whatever of our affairs, takes upon himself to claim by implication a right to the Board’s advertisements, and attempts to cry down our credit by an impudent falsehood, we think we are doing our duty to him, to ourselves, and to the public when we tell him so. We are set down by ‘ Joseph Ivess’ as a paper having 1 no circulation,’ and w r e presume the .coxcomb who so sets us down feels that he has honored us by condescending to notice us at all, far less considering us worthy to be traduced and slandered in a private letter to the Chairman of the Road Board. Had the letter been written to other than a thorough gentleman, and a man who is above a mean thing, there is a probability we should never have known who was the adder in the path, nor the egotistical snob who stabs Biit as the Chairman happens to be a gentleman, the overseer and all concerned had the fullest opportunity of knowing what was said against them. Our ‘no circulation’ charge needs no refutation. We have only to point to the extensive use made of our advertising columns by business men and others —so extensive as to compel us within a week or two to enlarge our news sheet—as a proof that Ivess ? - slander can do us no injury, and the public of the district who know pur pages so well are the best judges of whether we have * no circulation.’ Tillyvally, Mr Ivess.”