Our LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 3 October 1896, Page 28

Our LETTER BOX

Paul.— Well written, but not adapted for our columns. N. S. T.— We think the young lady showed excellent sense. Tom. — Tour jokes are of the circus clown species, and wouldn't bear transplanting into our columns. - Laurel. — You are a born poet. Does it never strike you what a pity it is so many poets are born '} Basket. Query.— We have heard nothing of the competition you ask about. Why not write direct to the promoter ? Marion H. — You may send in as many coupons as you like. The more coupons you Bend in the more tickets you will receive. You may send them in in one batch if you like. S. H. C— We can't spare the space to puulish the programmes in full of concerts and christy entertainments. If desired to appear they should be inserted as advts. Bunthobne (Hawera).— You may contribute a poem if it is any good. But our experience of poems has been disappointing. We— but never mind, it is rather a painful subject. A Waiuku Correspondent.— Notes intended for the Country Cousins page, if written in pencil', are always consigned to the wastepaper basket. Surely ink is cheap.enougli ? A.G.— Your better plan would be to communicate with the captain of the company you wish to join, and he will enlist you if you are of the required height and chest measurement. Essatist.— Sixteen pages of solid— very solid — writing. And on such a subject ! Better try some scientific paper, and if they won't accept it, try the fire. Sate acceptance there. Artilleryman. — The longest distance a shot has been fired is stated to be something over fifteen miles. This was the range of Krnpp's 'Monster,' a 130-ton steel gun, firing a shot weighing 2,600 pounds, The 110---ton Armstrong gun has an extreme range of fourteen miles, firing a shot weighing 1,800 pounds, and requiring 960 pounds of power. But these guns have proved too expensive, being unable to stand firing a hundred times, and their manufacture has practically been abandoned.