CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE-

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 159, 7 July 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE-

During the Parliamentary session it is essential that correspondents shall make their communications as brief as possible.

"W.8." expresses satisfaction at the manner in which the crowd at thetemperance meeting at the fixebell on Sunday conducted itself. He tbinjjs such .meetings cannot be otherwise than beneficial. "An Old Rugby Player," writing from Karangakake, complainjithatKarangahake was unfairly treated in the selection of a team to play Waihi and the Thames, Paeroa appointing too large a number of the team. He deClares that "four of the Karangahake forwards left out are far superior to any forward Paeroa player in the team." "Thirty Years at Samoa," referring to a kinematograph entertainment' given in Ponsonby, says the lecturer was mistaken in describing a man-of-war shown as the Porpoise, which has no square sails. It was, he says, the Royalist, a barque rig. The boat presented to the Samoans by the American Government was also, he says, wrongly described. The name of the boat, he states, is the Gataaga, and it is the largest boat built in the Islands, costing 800 dollars. Edgar West thinks the best way to reform the liquor traffic is by taking steps to ensure the sale of good liquor. "C.A.H." urges that the good example set by Mount Roskill 'bus proprietors in ceasing to ply on Sundays should be followed by the owners of Ferry steamers which are holding 'outtemptations to the young to turn Sunday into a day of pleasure. "H.S." suggests that the managers of the Central Mission should place men at the back of the hall instead of boys, who create a disturbance. R. Jenkinson criticises the Mayor's borrowing proposals. He says that according to the Mayor's own figures £100,000 cannot be borrowed without entailing extra burdens on the taxpayers, and he considers that the money spent in bringing water In from Onehunga will be absolutely thrown away.