CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14244, 19 June 1908, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED

"Here We Are Again" expresses dissen from the suggestion that the harloquinad should be deleted from the "Cinderella' pantomime, "Pedestrian," confirming Hie complain with respeot to the bad state of thDowling street cutting thinks tJiat a per mantnt crossing should' be laid down a the entrance to Messrs Speight and Co.' stables. " Ratepayer," writing on the subject o tlic city gas supply, says that for a Ion: time past he has been paying for an ad mixture of air and gas (mostly air) and t.this he emphatically objects. He holds tlia if those in charge at the gasworks are no able to give the consumers something a least, 50 per cent, better than the ga which is supplied at tho present time, thoi the sooner they are relieved of their dutie the better. He is informed that there an three expert gas makers in the corporatioi employ, and ho intends, therefore, askim the councillors who represent las war! to make an effort to get some change ii the quality of the gas supplied, — One of Hie questions contained in i general information paper recently kJ at the examination of a girls' high schod was-" Complete this quotation-'On Stanley, on! were the last words of '' One of the examinees confidently set dowi Livingstone as the missing word. Her explanation was even more amusing tl-an her innocence. "Well, I thought Livingstone rhymed in all right," she said. "And, besides, I know ho was some way mixed up with Stanley." ' Linseed Compoaad.'—Th« ' Stockport Bomedy" for Coughs tai Ooldfl, Of 10 yews' provou effica.cjj