CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6098, 3 June 1881, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

FRUIT-E VAPORATING MACHINES. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I find several settlers have called during my absence, desiring to obtain information from me respecting these machines, and not finding me at home, went away disappointed. I would say that I cannot guarantee the merits of the machines my correspondent in San Francisco offered, but if any of your country readers are willing to risk sending for one, 1 will obtain it free of all charges, so far as I am concerned, on having the proximate cost handed to me along with tho order;—l am, &c, W. S. Laurie. 7, Wyndham street, Auckland, June 2, ISSI. REPLY TO "ADVANCE." TO THE EDITOR. SiE, — Your correspondent " Advance Auckland" has evidently spare time upon his hands, or else is fond of seeing liis effusions i;a print. Allow us to inform him that he has drawn upon his imagination considerably. We challenge him to prove that the jam is other than the manufacture of the well-known firm of Knight Brothers, Hobart; also, that the tins containing the said article were ever made or used for any other purpose than the present one. The item re New Zealand shingle. Well, he must be one of the many that should patronise a coffee palace in Auckland, as his vision must have been somewhat peculiar to convert imported wooden spoons into New Zealand shingle. The public, however —always good judges of the quality of an article—certify (by purchasing freely) to the first-class quality of this particular article j we can

therefore afford to laueh at the ful. motive your had in penning his remarks, and^4 h^ ' next time a subject to dilate npon"th\i V knows a little more about.—We dreV& ? **• He\TO and B^Tt

THE RECENT SAILING MAT?W " TO THE EDITOR, ; " SIR,—In your local to-day reli«,- ' Mr. Bigelow haying declined^S a £ for another trial between the MadSt Observer, you remark that he Was «;,?£? fied." Now I think it is I that ain\i? fi Sb ; in challenging, as I find that moTt offi who witnessed the race are. of opinion «£> but for the accident, the Observer VouM have won. The fact is,.the ations in balloting and sail plan on myfefc have fully developed the fast which I was always sure she possessed am certain shd can easily beat th P \ua and really think that Mr. Bigelow accept my challenge because he is. certain it also.—l am, &c, J. W\ymott-S * June 2nd, ISSI.

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GRA\r MAR SCHOOL GOVJEBJTORS TO THE EDITOR. '

Sir,—ls any further proof. needed of tha reprehensible spmt and conduct of.some *? the Board of Governors in relation totholito enquiry ? If so, it will be found in the new? paper reports of the last meeting. 3tlr" Gal liver, one of the undennasters, notifies hi* intention to resign to the head-master'' A vhn also considers that, in the interests of ■•«;»' school, Mr. Gulliver should be ■eliovcd of his duties; but the autocratic Mc.'Pentbh that ruler of men, and even of Governor*' steps in and prevents the resignation, nrir hesitates apparently to tak» .;pon hiihskf to. speak for the whole Board, and say to jlr Gulliver it " would prove inconvenient and embarrassing to them." Now, wb y does Jfr Fenton act thus ? Is it to add insirt to the in'jury he has already done Mr. Macrae! Siini>lv a mockery was the late so-called inquiry and the above instance seems to illustrate that the good of the school was not the object sought for. How long are the real interests of the school and the public to he ignored, nay sacrificed, for the whims, tie vagaries, the prejudices of one or two men j Why also should the constitution of the Board of Governors be - exceptionally different, in at least one most objectionable particular, from that of any other siinuar institution in the. colony ? How does it happen that any one person can get three others nominated as Governors by tie Senate of the University to suit his pnrposes, without the public anything about it? Why rather should not the people of Auckland have what they are clearly entitled to, viz., a power of election » Is not the Auckland Grammar School established for the benefit of their children? Is it not endowed with their lands and aided, with their moneys? These things, then, and other abuses which of late have been only too apparent,'call for a remedy.. That remedy may be obtained by a petition to Parliament. I would ask you then, Sir, and the public, to promote and aid a petition to inquire into the conduct of these Governors; to revoke the Senate's power of influence with our school; to enable the people of Auckland themselves to chouse and elect proper Governors, and so control the. conduct and management of our school, the administration of its trusts and the appropriation of its funds and endowments to right uses for the public good.~l am, &e., AuCKiASDZR.