OUR LETTER BOX.

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1017, 25 June 1898, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX.

T,F.G.— Cannot find room for your ppem. John Graham (Dunsandel). — Have noted your suggestion. . Constant Reader (Gisborne).— A single item is not worth inserting. Subscribes. — You have either been imposed on or are trying to impose on us. B.M.J. (CoromandeP.— Thanks. Would like to have weekly contributions from you. Pbo Bono.— We have had quite enough of the thing, and so, we imagine, has tbe public. Sport. — No. They abandoned their intention of appealing and surrendered themselves to the police. Miner (Kuaotunu). — We shall not lose sight of your request. Your contributions should - reach us not later than Friday. H.C. (Nelson). — Your letter confirms the impression we have always had, that Nelson is a sleepy ptace. You must have been dreaming when you wrote it. A. J. M. — Excepting Indian troubles, the present war is the sixth fn which the United States have been emoarked. Tbe other five ■ were :— The War of Independence, the War of 1812, the war with the Barbary States, the Mexican War, and the Great Civil War. Hornet (Babylon).— Kindly discontinue. We have stood you quite long enough. It is bad enough to have to receive letters from you which must be written with a gumspear, but to inflict upon us correspondence written on grocers' hag 3 and the insides of envelopes is more thon we can stand. L.W.-r-The instance of ' phenomenal success begotten of youthful enterprise ' which you are good enough to cite isn't in it with the case of a witness in the Sydney Banco Court the other week. He was a fnU-blown squatter ere twelve summers had passed over his head. Both himself and bis brother, then 16 years old, entered into pastoral pursuit?, and took up a ran on the Murrumbidgee 6b years ago. At one period the pair were owners of 20,000 head of "cattle.