Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, 30 March 1922, Page 17

Answers to Correspondents

Anno wto . — Sorry we have no information concerning the breeding of those English notabilities. If you asked us about horses we might help you, but asses do not interest us. However, try Who's Who. J. McC., F. O’B., Reader. —You all agree to differ about the Irish flag and are all unanimous in not supporting your own views by references to known authorities. Under the circumstances we assume that the writer of the paragraph we printed is as good a judge as any of you. To Very Many Correspondents. —We regret that it is absolutely impossible for us to find space for the numerous reports of St. Patrick’s Day sent in this year. The crush is so great at present that'even bridesmaids’ hats get pushed off in reports of weddings. It cannot be helped. J. Me A.—We noticed the reference in the scurrilous paper edited by Mr. James Hutchison to ‘‘the half-breed, de Yalera.” That editor ought to remember that King George does not like references to mixed breeding in national leaders. Some people think that the forger is only an accidental on that paper, but clearly it is a case of the tail wagging the dog and of the dog’s enjoying it. Dunedin Reader.— The value of the Star man’s criticism and the proof of his ignorance is his citing the Spectator (beloved of the forger) about Ireland. It was as great an insult to the intelligence of his readers as if he had quoted Professor Dickie as an authority on the Catholic Church. When you see an editor putting in a. par. such as he put at the tail of Mr. Robinson’s letter, it is clear that he has been stoushed into substituting a squeal for an argument. Sport.— Posinatus won the Melbourne Cup in 1913. He is now used as a hack by a sport in black, named Father Clancy. Apropos of the change in his state of life the following may interest some of our readers; Sure ye had enough of the Ring and its bluff, And the punter's extravagant fancy! Done with Leger and Flat, you grow clumsy and fat In the care of the good- Father Clancy. ' ■•* ’* ’ 7 , XJI Och, there rarely a call for a. gallop at all, Or the sweat that makes sticky the winner, Blit you’ll use all your speed at some dying man’s need or to carry God’s grace to a sinner. - —C. J.G. J.K.L., who is an authority on the manufacture of bellicose pap for juveniles, sends us the following recipe for poM.ca! gripe: ‘‘One oz Bell’s vomica, to lie taken (sub ©tout), one drop (at the end of a rope) at 8 a.m.” ■ —— There is always something to which the strong may aspire, and something from which the weak may not shrink St. Benedict.