CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9306, 15 September 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

A lady sends a letter, " Women will Prove a National Board of Morals," from which we quote:—" Some men at least are loyal to the refining influence of mother, wife, daughter, and if such men are not returned at the next election ifc will simply mean that witless women shirk the responsibility of citizenship. Woman's political freedom makes it as well to be inferior as superior, since it is as pleasant, to the appreciative mind, to teach as to be taught; and woman, as an infant political prodigy, will prove an apt scholar, fer the sting of an unrecognised legal existence is gone, forever gone ! The door in the wall between the sexes was as good as bricked up, but now that the very door itself is gone there is likely to be less, not more, domestic friction : eaoh must respect the rights of the other. Character is the true woman's strong point. She has grown strong by repression, selfabnegation, and if her reputation has been assailed she has had to live it down, without hope of redress from all-paramount man. "Pro Bono Publico" complains of the injustice of the present method of dealing with the civil service. He says that the present system of making the pay dependent on caprice or favouritism is impolitic and unjust, and contrasts it with the system which prevails in private establishments, and at home. Mr. A.. Sanford asks Mr. O'Regan "If the State takes the rent paid for the use of a. block of land in Queen-street, it must be clear that the land will not be valued or exchanged at any price whatever. If, then, the exchangeable value is gone, on what value will the tax be estimated in future?"