OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1025, 20 August 1898, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

Parnell.— No, thanks. Katipo (Taranaki),— No space for nothing-in-particular items. W. McD.— Can give no hope of insertion, because of its length. Old Salt.— Tour yarn about Captain Fairchild is 100 years old. Thistle.— You don't argue on fair lines. All tommy-rot and abuse, Declined. B. B.— We make no charge for contributions to our Country Cousins columns. Toby— By all means. But some of your last notes were quite too personal, and had to be cut out. H.L.D. (Parnell) . — Our sincere regard for your feelings will probably explain why we decline to give our ' candid opinion ' of your verses. Wageb (Ponsonby\— (l.) As far as we can gather, they are not worth publishing in any form. (2.) ' The Derby Winner ' was produced by Bland Holt daring his last visit to Auckland. B.G. — We cannot assist you unless you give us an approximate idea of the date. To expect us to search through newspaper files extending over three or four years to find out the date of an event of little or no importance is unreasonable. X. — Your grievance re culpable negligence of a certain official to hand, but it wouldn't do to publish your assertions unless they were endorsed. We get sheaves of these letters every week, but we have to decline them for thi3 very reason. Blind Bat Cobbespondeht.— Possibly you mean well, but what is it all about ? Your notes are in cypher, and you haven't I furnished the key. Get a clearer notion of what you want to say, and say it plainly, next time you write. Hallelujah. -Would be more suitable In the War Cry or some journal published in the temperance interest. At the same time we are always glad to hear of any remarkable change in a man worked by a woman after marriage. She usually works a good deal of change out of him.