CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2426, 8 July 1876, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves lesponsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. All communications must be accompanied by tho nmno and Hddress of the writer, as. a guarantee ofgoorl failli. Goi respondents are requested to write only ox onk sidk of . the paper; aud, to pruvono in intakes, they .should write legibly aud be us brier ub possible. We x\o not undertake to publish letters, copies ol wlucli lmvo been sent to other journals. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. To th-e Editor of the Tarakaki HKIiALI), Sir, — Having said all that 1 think it necessary to sny upon this topic, nt least for tho present. I wish only in deference to tho Rev. H. H. Brown to state iv reply to hits wjsh for " chapter and verse of the dogma which I had enunciated," that he wi|l nod word for word that I quoted in, I think, the fourth chnptt-r of the Westminster Confession of Faith. I have notgbt the book here in the bush, but I believe I unme the chapter accurately. lam rather surprised that Mr. Bro*n should not be well ncquaiutcd with the doctrinal position of this formulary of " the sister Establishment." Indeed it is the dogmntio standard of belief which every minister and elder of the Established Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotlaud, the Irish Presbyterian Church, the United Presbyterian Church, and all the orthodox Presbyterian Churches of England, of America, aud of the Colonies have to subscrilv>» at ordination ; and which parents have Ur&y~ press their belief in when offering their children in baptism, and which nil communicants also have to express their belief iv before receiving tho Lord'e Supper. It is, thevsiore, no secondary authority that I quoted from ns to orthodox belief. It is, befeides, both terse nnd emphatic in its terms. Only one word more. I by no means "tacitly admit" Mr. Brown's "position" on the various points he went into in the adjunct to his first letter. I did not, aud will not at present nrguo these points. I simply express the opinion that they are neither Bcieutilic:vlly accurate, nor iv accordance with what is usuallj' termed orthodoxy. The latter, I need hardly say, is no demerit in my eye.— Yours, &.c, Robert Trimble. Inglewood, July 7, 1876. THE ' PATERSON. 1 To the Editor of the TARANAKI Herald. SIR, — To those acquainted with thecircumstauces attcudingthe obstruction to the Waitara caused by the wreckage of the steamer 'Patersou,' the recent advertisement Bigued Messrs. John Biogden & Sons iuviting tenders for the recovery of certain railway plant, is somewhat startling. That firm gained an unenviable notoriety by refusing to remove tho wreck from the channel of the river, and afterwnids by successfully resisting tho legal measures taken by the Superiuteudent .to compel them to do so, and the wreck, a terror to mariners for upwards of two } ears, lias remaiued until now ns n memorial of the indifference of the firm to the community, who would have preferred to remember them as j the couetruciors of tho iirat railway in their Province. One ground urged ou behalf of tho firm was, thnt they had parted with the wreck, nnd by meddliug with if would render themselves liable to the owner, who, by the way, after clearing the urcck of all that was within reach, uud followed the unhnudsome example of Messrs. John ISrogden & Sons' by leaving the remaining portions to imperil the navi-gntionofthi-river. The Superintendent hns at length, in tho public interest, tested the so-called rights of the owner, by employing Mr. Sauds and the Harbour Masters of New Plymouth and Waitara, who have just now operated on the wreck with ureat success by the application of dynamite, as recommeuded by Captain Johnson, of the Marine Board; and vow that the way to the hitherto hiddeu holds of tho sU/.nmer is mnde somewhat easy, Messrs. Biogden and Sons suddenly appear on tho scene, their fears of legal penalties apparently at nu end. If the Superintendent is rightly advised, ho will remain master of tho position, md apply whatever he can lay hiß hands on iv defraying the charges the Province is put to in clearing the river of a dangerous nuisance. — I am, &c, Freeholder. July 7, 1876*