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Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 1 June 1907, Page 24

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Anti-Rot. — A timely hint. It shall be borne in wind. Salt Spray — Not the smallebt danger. Admiral Favrkes would see to it if there was. Junius— Frr all practical purposes, the subject is dead. What is the use of resurrecting it? Fbbro.— Has ncit W. J. Napier taken the matter in hand ? \\Lhy. tben, bother 3 our head about it ? B. E. T.— It has never struck us in that way, and your laboured dissertation doesn't help us to see it, either. Roz (Haroilttfnfc.— Not explicit enough. Also, there ia nothfng to show that it is worth your while < o trouble about explaining. ' Pagan.— Cannot swallow your yarn about Tommy Uresham and the Bishop Why t should Tommy get a jacketing, anyhow ? HUMPirs.— Right, oh There will be a rare explosion as soon as the facts sink into the public mind. But the public are very slow in etching on to the situation. B. W B — The fund wa« raised and expended years ago, and detailed particulars were given to the subsi ribers. Before making nasty insinustioiiß you should be sure of your facts. Wharf Rat (Tauranga).— No, Rabbi Goldstein was not either an exhibitor or an txhibitee. and he is neither cold noi lukewarm. The allusion to "kohl rabbi" was probably the little joke of some festive comp. in your local newspaper office. Pater. -'A startling innova ion to you, possibly. But. after all, why shouldn't the girl have tur cigarette if she likes? If you get enjoyment from it, why bar the name satisfaction to a woman ? Besides, they say that Que^n Alt>andra enjoys her after-dinner whiff. That ought! to seitle the question of propriety. Puzzleb — Almost any kind of blood-poison-.7 ing would come under the head of septicaemia, so there was no error in the übc of the word Still, the daily papers might just as well have given the thing its common lame, for they nave hoodwinked no one outside Auckland. All the papers elsewhere plumped for plague straightway.