OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 947, 20 February 1897, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

Spebo (Kuaotunu,).— Your notes are welcome. Write regularly. Cobbespondbnt (Newton). — Shall be glad to hear from you at frequent -intervals. Cowboy (Waverley). — In our opinion the best way to utilise your surplus milk would be to —well, say cheese it. Kbmubeti (Cambridge). — Yes. Shall, be pleased to have some Cambridge gossip for * Our Country Cousins ' pages. Your reque&t attended to. Übebtas.— Your shriek for women's rights would tafee up too much space and is hardly needed. You have only to board a Queenstreet tram on a wet afternoon and you will find any amount of men standing up for women's rights. Justice. — We are not quite sure, but we are ready to believe that the majority of the New Zealand Jai Pees can read and write. Still, the Department of Justice does not insist on that point. Therefore, your father need not be discouraged if he is of the right colour. Tilly (Coromandel). — It certainly was too bad of the Kia Ora's captain to suddenly flash out his searchlight and make the lovers' walks as clear as noonday on that Saturday night. But, cheer up; the Kia Ora is destined for the Paeroa trade, and the mashers up there will get the full benefit of the searchlight. 'Dobothy (Wanganui). — Sorry to hear the Btage - struck amateurs of the Sandhills dropped £30 over their performance -of • Doroihy.' Evidently, the public don't 1 fancy them in opera. We see no harm in the sister of one of the artists throwing him a large bouquet. It's a free country, and sisterly affection is commendable. Pabishioneb. — "Sou are very . rough on the bazaar as a means of raising funds to wipe off the church debt. Hereis another idea that has just been thought out down in the back blocks of Otago, and proved very fetching : The local barber went for a lengthened holiday, and in his absence a zealous churchwarden undertook to cut the hair of as many customers as chose to drop a shilling into the collection bag. Try it.