parent stem; if therefore, the district branching out of St. Leonards has been so considered, and has been permitted to entwine itself with the original into pubescent fruitfulness, we desire more cogent reasons than any yet aduced(sic) to justify a separation.
Published Letters - Pro and Con
The Post Office? - Under this heading, and dated December 15th, a "West Ender" wrote to the Hastings as follows:-The case of the Postal District quarrel between the two towns should be put hypothetically thus:- I live in Hastings - Hastings by Act of Parliament, and by ancient consent and title. To oblige a few influential new-comers in a new township, my residence is placed in another postal district. I am called an inhabitant of St. Leonards. My letters must be addressed St. Leonards, or I have to pay extra postage and to suffer delay in delivery. Now I want to know by what authority the Postmaster-General or anybody else put me into a township which I have nothing to do with, alters my right address to a wrong one and makes me suffer inconvenience for keeping to right and law?"
The answer to "West-Ender" is that his declared residence was never called West-End nor West Hastings, although the latter name had been attempted to be thrust upon it. Nor was it ever any portion of the town of Hastings. It had no other name, in fact but what of St. Leonards from the first, given to it by its own inhabitants, which name it continued to retain for over twenty-two years (nearly 27) and thus became possessed of an established title, of which it could only be dispossessed by a special Act of Parliament. As the newer district joined the less new portion of St. Leonards where a general post-office was established, a mile and a half from the Hastings office the Postmaster-General could do no other than unite the two districts in one postal delivery. Any other arrangement under the circumstances great inconvenience to say nothing of additional expense - both to the Post Office and the inhabitants.
"The Two Towns" With these words for his text, MR. R. F. Davis, of 22 London road, St. Leonards sent the following to the Hastings News:-
"Sir -
One morning last week the majority of the Town Council seemed to have suddenly awoke from a long slumber. Whether they had been wound up to talking pitch at the Peacock Club we know not; however, when they did begin to rub their eyes and feel their feet, they certainly appeared to be dreadfully disconcerted and panic stricken to find that a part of the dear old town of Hastings had been called by a wrong name. From the speeches of ex-Mayor Ross (who certainly was the mercurius of the day and whom we St. Leonards people used to respect very much), we learn that during their years of torpor and culpa-
