TO AVOID MISTAKES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15862, 27 February 1912, Page 8

TO AVOID MISTAKES.

TO THE EDITOR. gj r —l hasten to apologise to “ Simplicitas ” for not having included the achievements of Mr Champion in the list of subjects for congratulation, not to sav boasting, at the disposal of patriotic New Zealanders. I felt at one o he would rectify the omission. He has not failed. Tf there are any other matters that I have overlooked in this connection, e.g., the slimness 0 t Povelka or the purity of Payne or the urbanity of the people of New Zealand in their treatment of their Mongolian brethren, ho will doubtless be equal to the occasion. I am afraid, however, that the habit of “ skiting, to. use Australasian fncon do purler, is too doeDlv ingrained in the inhabitants of ,7011112 countries to lie eliminated early r their career. Pickens, whose con--1 nrv I was surprised to see, was unobserved in New Zealand, made one of his characters in “Martin ( Wzlewit ’ the was an American), no must 1,0 cracked up,” and the same thing applies here. I can only hope that “ Sini-

plicitas” and others will get over this troublesome ailment as soon as may be, but I am afraid at present tho symptoms do not look too promising.—l am, etc., SOUTH AVALES.