ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 848, 2 December 1905, Page 7

ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

NEGLECTED ADVICE. I Mi- Holies ton said last night he was glad to find he had the syu-KiUij i>i the Minister' of Public Works ic ono thing. Mr HallJones legretted very iaucii that so many letters were written over noms de plume. 3Jow who was suffering iioni the attacks of anonymous corresponueuts, the Minister if mS 1 el 1 i " KeeiaSa txiraarumary that ilr ila.:l-J ones s followers aid not take the lint he gave them from the platform to leave anonymous coirespondence alone. Let them take up their evening paper, and they vould find a whole sneai of letters, containing ali sorts of charges made against snd motives imputed to him. This should rot trouble him; it was one of the things w gSt to - But 116 w as sorry -Ir Hall-Jones's followers did not take tie noral lesson given them in the Theatre a fortnight ago. (Hear, liear, and applause.) Je did not himself care much about these .etters, or whether anyone read them or H3t; but it was a pity that in a political cimpaign anyone's motives need be ques-. toned; and ia this he and Mr Hall-J ones we iTe probably at one. He mentioned this to point out how much importance to attach, to the writings of people who used a nom d® plume. He did not want people to cast their votes on account of what people write ia the papers, but upon the views which he had done his best to lay before tlitm. (Applause.) When the vote of thanks and confidence ha 3 been carried by acc'amation, Mr Rolleion expressed his thanks for its extreme iiffirtiness, and. for the cheers';they had gifren him. He hoped he would not read in tomorrow night's, japer that the cheers wjre given- for the Minister,- and .not -rfor •binself.; or that the audience as one man groaned him. (Laughter.) It might be Selhtary to be so chastened, bub it was :not peasant. He would take to himself some sitijsfaction from their. manifestation,- and h>{)ed. he would never prove, unworthy of tleir confidence. Mr Rolleston sat down jariidst further hearty cheering.