OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 773, 21 October 1893, Page 20

OUR LETTER BOX

P. J., Napier. — Your verse hobbles so badly as to suggest that your pen wants a rest. An admirer of the Observer, Opunake. — Write to Mrs Cowie's Home, or St. Mary's Orphanage, Ponsonby, or to Mr Strathern, Relieving Officer, Auckland. Bart, Wellington.— There is an old saying to the effect that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. You might have saved a good deal of expense to say nothing of anxiety, if you had invested say 13/4 in professional advice. Kalomine.— Your article would just about fill two pages of ' our esteemed journal,' and our esteemed journal wouldn't be nearly so much esteemed afterwards, either. No one would read your laboured attempt to show that two and two make four. Reginald B. Fitzp&trick, Cambridge.— It is our invariable rule to decline insufficiently stamped correspondence. We make no exceptions. The letter in question was not detained by us for the good reason that it was refused when ■ offered to us. All correspondents should bear this in mind, to stamp their letters sufficiently if they wish them to reach us. You have only yourself to blame. G. 1., Auckland.— Your ode to the 'National Ass' is a plaintive thing. It's too good for us. Have it set to music. Think how your concluding lines would sound sung by a popular vocalist : — Truth and justice must prevail, Let liberty be your cry, And when the numbers do go up, The Ass will kick and die ! With limelight effects this song would make your pile - besides advancing the price of eggs.