Answers to Correspondents.

Northland Age, Volume VI, Issue 19, 3 January 1910, Page 5

Answers to Correspondents.

H.C. Quite a Christmassy letter. From your remarks we infer that you had a very jolly Christmas but we don’t think you would appreciate the sight of your very vivid jollity in print. The Ace.—Never gamble, son! Sir Joseph Ward and all the other unco guids who get into Parliament don’t like it and, as they’ve made a law “ agin it,” it isn’t 6afe to touch the cards except on the very very quiet. Quiz.—We are dumping your stuff into the w.p.b. with great gentleness but we would like to know the kind of liquor which so inspired you. The Xmas Owl. —Good pen name, but that’s all the good we could find. Quivers, shivers and rivers rhyme all right but what have they in common with girls ? We can understand a sweet thing giving a fellow the quivers, and her “ no” the shivers, also the necessity for drowning his sorrow in rivers of—we will say—water, to meet the views of the N.Z. Alliance. Three Christmas Carols, a New Year Greeting, and two other holiday contributions, all of them supposed to be verse, have found the w.p.b. Will the writer of “ Adoration ” please note that we reached the second verse before the attempt fluttered into the receptacle reserved for futile efforts. This is not to encourage him to further rhyming but as proof of our conscientious examination of matter >submitted. New Broom, T.T., W.H., The Mac, and others.—Little space for correspondence this week and none received of sufficient merit to warrant publication.