AN ADDRESS FROM THE COLONIAL TREASURES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10194, 31 October 1894, Page 2

AN ADDRESS FROM THE COLONIAL TREASURES.

TO THE BMTOE. 5iR,-*-A» the lloh. J. G. Ward, the Colonial Treasurer, is expected in Dutiedin shortly, pu his way north, may I suggest tSwfc he be ssked'ta meet and address the electors. His well-known ability to deal witk financial questions would bring together an appreciative audience.—l am, &c,

Ootober 30.

,<F. L,

THEOSOI'HY. TO TIIJS EDITOB.

Sir,—ln reply to yonr correspondent " Mercury,"* ths "Nineteenth Century" for .Maj 1593 contains Professor Max KiiUer's article espoeing Madame Blavatsky's blunder* in Sanskrit, and challenging her to produce these hidden Sanskrit MSS. containing the mysteries of the religion of India that supported het Theosophio teaching, Mr Hodgson's , report of his investigations of her alleged miraculous powers appeared in the "Proceedings of tha Society for Psychical Research," part JX, December 1835, published by Ktgan Paul, Triibner, and Co. —I turn, &C, Dunedin, October 30. Jno. J. Lewis,

THE BRNMORE CASE.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir,—The trouble at the Benmore station hiwicg arisen over the question of shearing wet sheep, perhaps the following Australian experience of this vexed.trouble maybe worth recording:—" A dispute aroio &a to what were wet sh'esp.' The manager accepted the men's statement that the sheop were wet, and ordered , them to be turned cat for three days. The men objected, saying that ons day was Buificieut, but the manager said he would make certain, and give them three days."— I am, &c, Danedin, October 29. W. (J, W.