THE HERALD'S WAIKATO "NEWS."

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1359, 17 March 1881, Page 2

THE HERALD'S WAIKATO "NEWS."

TO THE EDITOIt. Sib, — The paragraph published in the Waikato Times on Saturday last, referring to a fire which occurred in my house on the previous Tuesday night, and in extinguishing which I had my hands burnt, was perfectly true and correct in every particular. I write this in justice to your reporter, as I see by the Auckland Herald of Monday last, that Mr A r on Stunner, the Hamilton and Waikato correspondent of that paper, states that he was requested to deny the statement that a fire, as reported by you had occurred. Mr Yon Stunner told me he intended to deny the statement, although 1 told him, xt was quite correct. — lam, &c, William H. Kelly. Hamilton East, March 15. [The above letter discloses the existence of a state of things with which we have long been familiar, and of which many of the better informed of our readers have not altogether been ignorant. The Waikato News column of the Herald is the daily receptacle for facts which have no existence save in the fertile brain of their originator. To supply corrections to these repeated legends is neither possible nor necessary. It is not possible, because we have not the time at our disposal to read all the nonsense, and worse, which one day from Cambridge, another day from To Awamutu, and another day from Hamilton, appears in our Auckland contemporary, all the production of one hand, and all: hailing from one locality — Hamilton?. It is not necessary because, after all, only comparatively few people in Waikato, chiefly business men, read the Herald, and as they seldom or never waste any time on the Hamilton correspondent's lucubrations, very little harm is done to our constituents. At the same time we must confess to haying some regard to the interests of friends in Auckland, and elsewhere, by whom the Htrald v $ version of what ia doing in Waikato may be taken as being worth something, and it is solely on their account that we find any. fault at ail with that which, to our mind, is too contemptible even for ridicule. To refer more particularly to the Herald's correspondence which gave rise to the above* letter of Mr Kellys, it is self evident thatit was written in a spirit of vindictive antagonism to the Proprietary of this journal, by whom Mr Yon Stunner's services were dispensed w,ith some twelve months ago. — Ed.] , ,

So EXCELLENT A TOUCH OFMoDESTT. A Presbyterian minister in the Hebrides in« yokes' the Divine blessing upon Mthese isles and upon, the adjacent islands of Great'Britaw and Jwland/'