Our LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 921, 5 September 1896, Page 24

Our LETTER BOX

Mabt.— Get your big brother to kick him. S.T-— We don't publish reports of Boad Board meetings. L.B.— Lines received. Qaite unsuitable for our columns. Claude.— ls it so ? Then let us congratulate you. You must be a perfect mashah. W.D.S — You probably mean the 'Leather Manufacturer,' published in New York. Dora —You don't say so ! Well, welJ, what a silly girl she must have been. Abhebent.— Received too late. But the trouble is now over, and your suggestions are therefore unnecessary. J.W.G.— We never hinted at anything of the sort. Take a black draught or a beidleitz powder, and read ib over again. Ada.— Better to wait for sis or seven years. Fifteen seems to us a very early age to get engaged. Mick. — No doubt you- are a broth ay a bhoy, but your verses are not up to our mark, Micky. Inquirer.— The first office held by Sir George Grey on his return to public life was that of Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. Correspondent (Dannevirke). — Thanks. Your anticipations about the increased circulation of the Observer are very gratifying. Keep up the notes. W.T.— Don't get impatient. We get so much correspondence from your quarter that it is quite impossible to use it all in one week. Will probably appear in next is3ne. Student (Wanganui).— We know him. For pure cheek and brazen effrontery we don't think he has his equal this side of the Line. And he calls himself a phrenologist, does he? Marie. — Your ' Gentle Footsteps ' have gone the way of the rejected. We are full-up of love poems -in fact we have a handcartful of them. Why can't you write something about the old man? If!* 'gentle' footsteps as he chased the lover would be something worth reading.