Correspondence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XI, Issue 751, 27 February 1878, Page 3

Correspondence.

" MILD " IN REPLY. (To the Editor.) Sir,— Ho doubfe the dressing down Mr Morrison has given me in your issue of the 20th mst. was penned immediately after reading Alice Carey's " My Creed " for the 101 st time. If so, then I gracefully accept it. I have always enjoyed a conversation with Mr M., and if one, " when on a visit to the Half Way " (who told him ?) would have resulted in an outlay on library books, then pity 'tis it did not take place. When I use the expression "lords of creation," it just stards for men simply. An esteemed lady friend of mine makes use of it at times somewhat contemptuously, and when I pen it, it leads me to think of her. As to a nom- deplume I prefer using one, not, certainly, because of a fear to publish my name, but for sound reasons !>hat Mr M. would approve of did he know them. I hope he will use a norm- deplume after this. Had he done so in connection with "My Creed," he would not have had theopportunity of so unmercifully exposing me as he has done. The fact is, Mr Editor, there is too much preaching and too little practising in these days. That is why I like to have a rap (but in the most loving way possible) at any one, as it were, folding his hands, turning up his eyes, and saying : " Dearly beloved brethren, this is ' nay creed,' but, Oil ! there is one thing in it, it costs mo nothing." — I am, &c , "'" ' Mud, Lawrence, 21st February, 18.78,

A drama oalled "The Wuiiiwright Tragedy'? was being played at Market Harborough lately, when an accident occurred which nearly had a fatal result. The representative of Henry Wainwright haying been duly pinioned and the rope adjusted, was allowed to swing, when the stool upon which his feet should have i r gated, slipped from. -\md§rneatli them.