Condensed Correspondence.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1895, Page 4

Condensed Correspondence.

• ♦ Tho accumulation of letters to the Editor s so great that we are obliged to oondense a number. " W.L " objects to the proposal to dispense with physical training in the schools, as certain to injuriously affeot the moral, physical, and intellectual stamina of tho children. Better rednce the ridiculous, useless mental strain of " our glorious national system" than interfere with the physical culture in the manner proposed. "J.S.A." writes on the same subject. Some of the school committees greatly objcot to Mr. Young's proposal to dispense witb Mr. De Mey'e services as drill instructor. His instruction is most valuable, and should not be dispensed with. It is absurd to say the teachers would in a fortnight learn how to instruct in this branch. They could not teach like a professional drill instructor, and if the instruction is not kept up to a high standard discredit would fall on tho teachers and loss on the children. It would not be honourable to shunt Mr. De Mey after having learned so much from him. '" Anglican" thinks Mr. Stock unwittingly misrepresented tho meaning of the Diooesan Synod's resolution. As tho word "only" is not in the resolution, Mr. Stock's interpretation falls to tho ground. The eighth Bubric, with which the resolution should be read, requires the annual dues to be paid "at Easter,' not on Pastor Sunday. There is, therefore, nothing to prevent any offertory or offertories at the faster season being handed over to the clergy if circumstances rendor it desirable. "Churobman" also considers Mr. Stock wrong. The Synod does not direct that only one day's offertories shall be given to the curate, bnt that those on Easter Day shall be so given. Perhaps another day oould not be substituted, but it is absurd to Buppose that it could not be added. "An All-round Sportsman" replies to "Shoot What You Require, Ac." Birds wounded in the bush go away to die in agony, but the chance of killing outright is greater in a pigeon match because there is clear ground. Wounded birds are easily despatched. Pigeon - breediug also gives employment to a large number of people. " Gun " writes in defence of pigeon shooting. Birds if wounded are quickly killed, and do not get away like birds in the bush, and there are aln ays poor people glad to get the birds to eat. No unnecessary cruelty is permitted at these matches. " Heririrangi," from knowledge gained in London recently, and conversation there with a gentleman from Brazil, is muoh impressed with the necessity for combination in the frozen meat trade, and considers Mr. D. J. Nathan's proposal tho most practicable and feasible yet put forth. All interested in the trade and the colony should asßist in bringing the proposals to a practical issue. "A Delegate " asks what are the Association footballers about to allow the Rugby Union a monopoly of Newtown Park with the_ exception of two Saturdays P The Rugby Union has all the pitoheß worth having about Wellington, while the Association, with its large roll, has only Hobson-street and Kaxori. The Hobson-street ground is not fit to decide Cup ties on. "A Delegate" appeals to the City Council to give the Association a show, and allow it the use of Newtown Park every alternate Saturday. "A Disgusted Taxpayer." who was present as a spectator at the Feildurg Encampment, characterises the affair as a series of bnngles. The Bite was badly chosen, the tentß were old and ragged, and the staff lo=t their heads, so that when the order to break up was given they let things rip, and if it had not been for volunteer officers like Captains Collins and Paterson it would have been a forlorn look out for the rank and file. The affair was a disgraoe" to the oolony, and contrasted badly with the camp in Otago where a soldier was in command. The Defence Minister should rely more on his military adviser, Colonel Fox, and less on men with antiquated ideas of a quarter of a century ago. " Volts " does not consider the explanations givrn in regard to the electric light wire accidont at all satisfactory or sufficient. Instead of sending out to find where tho break was and awaiting a report before turning off the current, it would have been better, even at the risk of public inconvenience, to have opened all the circuits without delay. Our correspondent asks Would it npt be possible to have attaohed to each circuit in the central' office a tell-tale index that would show a break immediately it occurred P Would it not even be possible to devise some mechanism that would in such an event automatically break tho circuit and stop the ourrent?