TAPANUI AND ITS "BRUCE HERALD" CORRESPONDENT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 278, 29 May 1873, Page 6

TAPANUI AND ITS "BRUCE HERALD" CORRESPONDENT.

{To the Editor.) Sin, — In the *' Bruce Herald " of May 16th, I observe a communication from their powerful quill-driver, " our own," from Tapanui. t He says " I am compelled, in justice, to give a fair statement of our style of doing business." If his statement is to regarded as a truthful exposition of our mode of doina: business, Tapanni must certainly appear a charming place to the lover of the picturesque. He says the " Progress Committee " hove been pronounced clean. This would certainly lead a stranger to the conclusion that the Tapanuists must be an exceedingly filthy set of people, and that those who are at all pure hear a call addressed to them from the P.C.: " Come ye out from among them and be clean." On reading '* our own's" production a little further on, the stranger would be still more surprised with Tapsinui : he will find there has been a freak of nature, quite a lusus naturce, in the public, giving birth to such a "crooked body" as the School Committee. '■' Our own " says (what is true,) that the deacon's court had asked the School Committee for the use of the schoolroom for divine service on Sunday, He also says (what is not true,) that this request waa refused. Now, the matter was taken into favorable consideration by the School Committee;

but the deacon's court had some little Lime previously meddled .at head quarters with some of our educational matters (with which the deacon's court had nothing whatever to do) and thus c.ist a slur on the School Committee. The Committee asked the deacon's court, before granting their request, to apologise for their rude behaviour. But this they refused to do, it evidently being a difficult matter for a body of professing Christians to practise the golden rule ; and hence, in fostering their pride, the public are compelled to sit "in durance vile," and breathe a more stifling atmosphere, Sunday after Sunday in the Oddfellow's Hall. " Our Own " says we are all-powerful in timbor ; well, I Bay this, like charity begins at home, for a more wooden production than his tame letter it would be difficult to find. I do hope, Mr. Editor, that when you are in want of special correspondents, you will advertise for such, and I have no doubt " Our Own " of the " 8.H." will send you estimates of his price, with a splendid statue of himself in wood, before whom we must all bow our dovoted heads, and cry " Eureka ! eureka ! I have found un intellect, wooden perhaps, which I must for the future idolise." — I am, &c, Paul Pry. Tapanui, May 23.-d.