DCORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11570, 11 July 1899, Page 3

DCORRESPONDENCE.

I We are not responsible for the opinions expressed, by .correspondents. The writer's name, as a guarantee of good faith, must be enclosed in the letter.] MR COCK ON MR STOCK. TO THK EDITOK. Fir,— lt has taken Mr C. K. Stock the be3t part of a month to produce what he calls his ''final reply" to my letter of 16th June, and, as he admits the truth of nearly all the statements contained in that letter, there is little left in dispute between us. Mr Stock Bays that the statement that he applied to be appointed a Stipendiiry Magistrate iv New Zealand is "an impudent lie,' and he points oat that, as he is not a barrister or solicitor, such an appointment was impossible. Doe* Mr Slock mean to assert that he did not try (never mind how ho was to quslif)) to get appointed Stipenciary Magistrate at Opucske iv succession to ihu iale Al&j ,r 'L uke, and that siLce then be has not dono hi-j level best to get a bimUar position at li.glewoo-.i ? Ie would be very inter* sting to know how ihe wealthy Quaker M..P .in England came to wrko tnch a latter to Mr Soddon on behalf 01 Air Stock; also how the letter conies into Mr Stock's posH6hion. Mr btcck refers to my ignorance. Is it not a very ungenerous tbing for one who in his youth had educational advantages of perhaps a very high order, to tauuc another who bad to be content with each schooling an was available to the boy 3 of the Taranaki settlement ? Fortunately, notwithstanding the drawbacks of only a plain Eog!i.-.h education, I have managed to rub along fairly well and to afford my elder boy a few terms at College, and I believe he will now compare very favourably with the Bon of the cultured Mr Stock. He (my boy not Mr Stock's) tells me that Mr Stock's Latin quotation mean?, " Let the cobbler stick to bis last." Tbat'a all right, K. (Jock is still to be found carrying on his old established business in Devon- street with the assistance of his son, but what about JSJr Stock't last? "What is it, and whose is it ? Ja.k of all trades and master of none! I would alto like to ask why Mr Stock, with such an cndoisement as the wealthy Quakor M.F. gives him, fouud ltdosiiablo to leave England and take to bushwbaikiug in New Zealand. Has he fouud the change to his bentfif, or how ? Ab my friend says he will reply to no more letters of mine until he knows who wiites i hem for me (evidently believing my ignorance will Lot allow me to write ior myself), perhaps he will get one of his nunuroiH admirers to answer my f^w quetilioLS - particularly about the shoemaker's last and bis reasons for leaving the Old Country.— l am, &c , R. Cc.ck. lO.h July, 1890. P.tf —When iho wealthy Quaker M P.'s comments on Mr Stock's letter of 16th June reach New Zealand, they shall be placed at jour disposal for the information of your readers. I have no doubt his views oa tbo appeal for "jnst one month's trial' will be veiy interesting. He will probably imagine his protegee is sufferir g from oidccephalus.