INSPECTOR FOULIS AND HIS DETRACTORS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 4047, 22 May 1879, Page 2

INSPECTOR FOULIS AND HIS DETRACTORS.

Sir.— As one genuinely, iafcerested in the cause of education, I last evening observed with regret another attempt on tlie part of your evening contemporary; to throw descre<iit 'upon, 'and lessen) tha influence of a zealous 1 painstaking officer, whose misfortune it evidently has been at some timp or other to offend the amour propre of those who rule vtlie de>. times of that fearfully, and wonderftiUy edited journal. , What public good is sought to be achieved 'by resorting to the somewhat stale trick of selectirig portions of isolated passages^ and holding ithe writer of them up to ridicule, because 1 of, some slight defect , in their construction (as likely as not the result of spme printers error) is more than. lean perceive. The' Jleral'd's article begins with an allusion to a v manifesto of inordinate pretensions," whiohit states ushered into public notice the Inspectors Report, Sir can you inform me when this manifesto , Was; published, and where circulated f I must confess that until I saw. last night's article I was not aware (jhat it had ever had an existence. It is quite possible there, .may be trifling errors in the construction of the Inspector's Report, but! do' ;they lessen at all theimpor- ; tancdof the work be has done, and is it customary to hold up to execration and contempt a , man whidae, usefulness, ) « n ßr,gy,, and industry have been proved, because., his, English is a trifle rough ?• Tlie long article: is, remarkable for ndthing sayo the bitter personal dislike wliicu bristles everjr line. The vindictive dis- '< para^biient -?rhich ia span 'but' tothelength of almost' two' columns might have been much more effectively expressed in half-a-dozealilinegi I, myself, have not jei had titae,bo>read the report for which 'the &}{° T , M'tth*, Herald has, waited since ' Jafduai l y l wjt& anxiety. ; ' Whea lam able oto0 to ab so 1 may again have to; crave your indulgence for a few lines upon it. Mdaiiwhile having recordedlmy ,proWst ! ..!againßt the ufftmerited abuse heaped upon. Mr Foulisl— l am, &c, ! ■ >■■'■•'■'■. ■'■•■■ ..•'■ •; '■ • Pabent: ! i . .VVang^nuii'May 2lsfc •" • •«■,