WALKA TO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 57, 15 October 1881, Page 70

WALKA TO WHISPERINGS

— Notice to the Hamilton Public. "Wanted Known. — A splendid view of all entertainments that take place in Le Qnesne's Hall c;in be had from the upstairs bar of the Waikato Hotel, cheap (in fact, free yrnd'.s and without crossing the Murray. — To the Editor : Sir, — As a friend of the mail carrier referred to in the letter of your Te Awnmntn correspondent in last issue, I bejr to most einphaticully to contradict the statement thiit the constable was guilty of any incivility to Mr Palmer. The fact is, that in passing on with the mail he touched him accidentally with the bag and asked Mr P. to stand aside, which the fellow took as an insult and commenced pourinsr out a deluge of opprobious epithets. The constable, instead of replying, kept perfectly silent, merely saying: that but for the uniform he wore, he wouldn'tstaud such language from his father. It is very liard that a constable, who is invariably civil to everyone and constantly does little kindnesses both for the newspaper folks and the pnblic, should be thus grossly libelled, merely because of Mr Palmer's bad temper. — I am, &c,, One who knows both parties. — To the Editor : Sir,— ln your issue of the Bth inst. I noticed an article from a correspondent charging the postmaster with incivility, and also with using bad language and swearing. Now, Sir, everyone who knows Mr Clough knows your correspondent's statement to be a tissue of falsehood from beginning to end. It is very cowardly of him to attack a man whom lib knows dare not reply through the press. He says, " the post-office opens its doors for the sale of stamps five minutes after the morning mail bngs are closed." If he wants to post his letters in time for the mail he should do as others do, provide himself with stamps the evening before. The mail Icloses at 9 o'clock (the hour at which the post-office opens) and it is very obvious the postmaster cannot keep the mail open for your correspondent's letters, important though they may be, for all articles written by a man with such a gigantic hen — intellect, I mean — must be of the greatest importance to the country. General indignation is felt at the fellow for being cursed with such a disposition. Sir, I have known Mr Clough since he came to this district, and everyone who knows him will agree with me in saying that he has earned the respect and esteem of everyone for his kind and obliging disposition. With regard to the charge of using bad language, and the word " bloody," that bears the stamp of falsehood. Your correspondent then ridicules Mr Clough's personal appearance. He hud better have left that unsaid, as he has nothing to boast of on thy score of good looks, resemblance to the Deity does not strike one on beholding him, the sight of him rather suggests Darwin's theory of the " Descent of Man." He has carried out his promise, for on the occasion to which he refers, he said he would expose the postmaster in the papers. Trusting you will give insertion to this contradiction of your correspondent's lying and spiteful statements. — I am, &c., B. W. Koche, Te Awamutu, October 10th, 1881. — To the Editor : Sir, — The statements made by a Te Awamutu correspondent in your last issue concerning our much respected postmaster are nothing but a fabrication of lies from beginning to end. Your correspondent is well known as a most obnoxious dipsomaniac who has already made himself offensive in more places than Te Awamutu. When at Te Aroha had he not quietly taken the hint given him by the general public of that place, the dread of which caused him to seek fresh fields and pastures new, he would have undergone the unpleasant but well deserved operation of tarring and feathering, and if he prolongs his stay in Te Awamutu he is likely to get ducked in the Mangawai, a process which would probably (but I have my doubts) help to clear his brain from the awful amount of alcohol he has imbibed at the expense of the general public during his stay here. On the morning in question he was, to all appearances, on the verge of an attack of d. t's, and the language he imputed to our postmaster was, doubtless, the imagination of a frenzied brain. To my own knowledge, your correspondent is under certain obligations to our postmaster, which Bhnll be nameless, but the old adage is true, as he only casts his pearls before a hog and that hog of the very worst breed. Being in a chronic state of impecuniosity, your correspondent had doubtless only two wretched tokens to forward his penny blasphemings, the veracity of which was doubted by the authorities h.e was writing for. Your correspondent fancied that "a red head glared evilly" through the window at him. I am sorry his disease had reached such a stage, for the safety of himself and the public, I think it would be advisable for some member of that force into whose hands he has before fallen (according to his own statement) go arrest him. bring him before the R.M. and get him committed to the Wha\i as a dangerous lunatic. Your correspondent, being a literary man, there is only one branch, of the profession for which he is suited, viz., that of an animated sandwich, and it would be advisable for him to betake himself to some large town where his talents would be fully appreciated, where he would be quite at home and meet society more suitable to his station, and where he would be under the super-vigilance of Superintendent Thompson, Detective Jeffery and the other members of that force for whom he expresses such respect. With regard to the libel respecting the A.C. Force, a finer and more respectable body of men does not exist in any colony, and the individual member whom he designates as "a loafing blackguard" commands the respect of the public generally in this district by his civil and obliging manner. I am surprised that a respectable and useful journal like the Observer giving credence to such a concoction of lies made by a man not responsible for his actions against, such, well-known public servants. Your correspondent has evidently graduated soinowhsre in the neighbovirhood of EatclifJeHighway, as lie seems quite an fait in the choicest Billingsgate phraseology. In justification of our much respected postmaster and the other official alluded to, I hope you will insert the above.— l am, &c, Te Awamutu Observer. — [Our Waikato correspondent must either justify the statements in his Te Awamutu friend's letter, or else explain how he came to accept such a contribution without testing its truth. — Ed. Obsbrvbr.j