statistics the untenableness of the position we have assumed. Until this is done, we shall reiterate as often as may be needful our last week’s refutation of certain statements made at a recent meeting of the Town Council. It may suit the purpose of certain parties with ulterior designs to foist upon the public erroneous representations in which a comparatively small amount of inconvenience is magnified into large proportions, and to propose as a remedy that which they well know must be attended by a tenfold – nay, a hundred-fold greater inconvenience to such as would be affected by the change. What sane man, for instance, will believe Mr. Alderman Ginner’s assertion that in the event of the St. Leonards post-office being abolished the people in that district would receive their letters as early as they do now? Is it not apparent to the most ordinary intellect that the mails which now arrive at St. Leonards first, by being carried through to Hastings and conveyed back again must necessarily be delayed half an hour; and is it not equally clear that the letter-boxes at St. Leonards must, in such case, be closed considerably earlier than at present? It follows, then, as an unavoidable result, that without a general post office, the present facilities for epistolary correspondence at St. Leonards must be abridged to a considerable extent, and that, too, without any equivalent compensation in other ways. We do not believe, however, that the postal authorities have any intention of acceding to the unjust demands of our neighbours; and, as corroborative of this view of the case, we may mention that an order from head quarters to put on an additional letter-carrier at St. Leonards has this week been put into force. We will not pursue the subject any further at present, but conclude with a suggestion that as our Hastings friends are desirous of trying the effect of one post-office only for two towns, and that as the St. Leonards people are equally desirous of not having their own post-office abolished, let the experiment be made by having the amalgamated offices in the latter town. From what we hear, we judge it not improbable that in the event of a change, this plan will be adopted by the postal authorities. We shall then see who are the losers”
The Hastings News, in the week which followed the above second article in the St. Leonards Gazette assured its readers that “A contemporary for whom we have respect, has fallen into the mistake of supposing that our last week’s notice of the controversy was occasioned by his observations. We beg to assure him that we do not know what he said about the matter; and only saw his subsequent remarks through having our atten-
