Our Letter BOX

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 922, 12 September 1896, Page 24

Our Letter BOX

•vp, G.— Nonsense. Fairy.— Did you really ? Max.— Thanks. You are a regular brick. QuizzEß.-Thanks. Bend us a few weekly. Mayblossoji.— Very pretty indeed. Write again. Thames. Will use next week. Too late for this issue. Anonymous.— A slip-slop story, written with a slip-slop lead-pencil. Bobin— Absolutely useless. And listen-buy a spelling-book and keep it handy. WAyBACK.- 1 Lost in the Bush' is interesting, but there isn't enough of it to make it worth publishing. Eileen.— You had better make inquiries as to the character of the man before entering his employment. Mundic— 'The Girl of Te Arai' verse was hardly up to the mark, but most of your prose appears this week. Try again. Gaspipe.— Would like to have a few noteß from you regularly. But you must attach your name and address. Bluff.— Perhaps you can run the paper better than we can. Why don't you start one of your own, and show us the way ? Inqoireb (Coromandel).-The furniture cannot be seized by the husband's creditors if the wife can show that it was bought by her with her own money. Archill.— The charge is a very serious one to bring against any man, more especially a public official. Better have your statement endorsed, or call and see us. J.L.C.— We don't care to publish your letter, because from what we know of the gentleman in question we feel sure that he would not like to have his actd of charity made publicly known. Sobscbibek.— lt is necessary, in order to ensure receipt of tickets for our Prize Distribution, to send, enclosed with your coupons, au envelope, stamped and addressed, to cover the cost lI transmission. Cobbespondent (Onehunga).— Glad to hear of your friend's £7,000 windfall. Better than mine promoting, eh ? But to' chronicle the fact would be the means of having him beseiged with applications for aid from all the main points of the compass and all the little points between. Ngabu asks— Will you be kind enough to inform me through your Letter Box whether an M.C. has any power in the follow ing, which occurred in a ballroom ? A set was formed, which was the Liancers. When the dance had proceeded as far as swing corners, the lady refused to swing with the gentleman, thus leaving the gentleman to stand and looK on till he got someone else. Would it have been the duty of the M.C. to either remove or demand an explanation for the above?— Certainly not. A lady in a ballroom is her own mistress, though in refusing to turn corners with anyone in particular she was guilty of gross rudeness, which would reflect upon herself more than upon the gentleman.