Correspondence

[Whilst we weloome letters on all subject* of local interest, we must ask our friends to condense their remarks as much ad possible. Of course we dp not necessarily adopt the opinions expressed by our cor respondents.—Ed. "Stab.'*]

Saninel Pinlay.
TO •JKO.IB JWITUK. : fens,— ln reading your report of the .', above oase, I find a great deal which i$ not true. Yon Btated that old Airs Fintay was drinking, and that drink brought on her death. Now, I may state that for , several years she was in failing health, and for twelve months before her death she waß an inmate of the Hospital. At her death her son bore all the expenses of her funeral, which he could ill, afford, bb he- I has got a very large family. He then volunteered to take his father to Ash burton, and do the best he could for him, which I confidently assert he did. Know ing the son eighteen years, I may say that he is a , hard working, indasbrioiß man),* which the Sev E. A. Scott, of Sydonbam, can bear me ont In.— l am, ieV -..'■> W.M'/i'v

Inquest.
Aa inquest, before John Ingram, Ee^., Coroner, and a touching the death of a child. Lydia Ann, daughter of Mr Edward Home, tcok place at her father's residence, Oxford, yesterday forenoon (Sunday). A jury was empan elled, of which Mr Walter Rjde waschoseu foreman. The evidence of the father and mother went to show that the child was quite well on the evening before its death. Dr Weld, who had been in attendance on the child, was called, and stated that death was caused by suffocation. The verdict was " Death by accidental suffocation."

Revenue Returns.
