CORRESPONDENCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11724, 27 November 1905, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

Tha Premier** Action.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — I resent and deplore the action of the Premier in lowering his high office by personal canvass as between four members of his own party, and also his sneer at youth and inexperience. All this is quite unworthy of him, and should have the effect of causing the electors to vote for Mr Hogan, as I intend now to do. Mr .Seddon was young and inexperienced himself once, and only got his present knowledge by the opportunities given him by the electors. The present young people will rule this country when we old ones are dead, and a nice mess they will make of it if they are not allowed to gaj.ii ex)seriencs. Mr Seddon also presents the extraordinary spectacle of an advanced Liberal leader advocating monopoly. — I am, etc.,

J. W. KENAH.

Wanganui, November 24.

The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. 390, J. McGruer and Co., Drapers, Victoria Avenue.

The Chronicle ' this morning devotes a column to a laboured attempt to prove to its readers that the words "Theatre Royal" could not by any means be construed into a lapsus/ calami, and that no Wanganui person could possibly have written them in mistake for the words Opera House." We remember some months ago, when the Japanese Fancy Fair wat in progress, the Chronicle reported it under the heading "Agricultural Association." Could it be that such was no mistake at all, and that it was deliberately done by the wicked Chronicle in order to hoodwink and deceive a confiding public, as it says the Premier does?

The Chronicle is advised that the Leader of the Opposition intends visiting Wanganui and addressing the electors at tho end of the wook. Having deliberately and of set purpose omitted to give a report of the Prime Minister's criticism and exposure of the methods and fallacies of the Opposition, as outlined in Mr Seddon's addiers in the Opara House on Thursday evening last, our contamporary now thinks the omission to do justice to tli3 Premier of ; the colony would bs even more glaring if it recorded Mr Massey's utterances. And ?o we find in this morning's Chronicle ropy of the report of the speech as pubished in Friday's issue of the "Herald.'" The apology given by our contemporary '•s, to say the least, disingenuous, and only emphasises the- fact that it was afraid tc publish the Premier's speech, for the reason that it might have" influenced its readers in favour of tho Government. The Chronicle's explanation that it wished it* readers to have a fair grasp of both side? of the question is a mere euphemism fo 1 an attempt to cover up its one-sidedness.