Correspondents.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 47, 5 November 1857, Page 4

Correspondents.

Cv>" Communications should bo authenticated bv the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Our columns are open to all correspondents ; but we neither endorse the opinions nor guarantee the facts of any. (To the Editor of the Auckland Examiner.) Sir,—A wager depending upon your decision, I have the honor to request that you will be good enough to inform me whether a supernumerary clerk in the Commissariat Department ranks with a full private, nr with a corporal, or with a lance sergeant, and further, whether he is properly entitled to wear a uniform. My opponent says yes, buttons, but no sword. I say neither buttons nor sword. Yours, &c., Buttons. November 3rd, 1857. ' [We believe that a person performing the duties of clerk in the Commissariat as a supernumerary, ranks with a lance corporal ; so that both/ 1 Buttons” and bis

opponent are wrong on the first subject of dispute. We have carefully read through the Queen’s Regulations, and find nothing in them to prevent any non-commis-sioned officer in the Commissariat from covering himself with buttons if he pleases. The orders, are imperative on the subject of the sword, which can only’ be worn by a commissioned officer. There can be no objection, however, to the supernumerary carrying a carving knife, or a chopper ; indeed we think they would be useful additions to such a person’s outfit. —Soldiers are not required to salute a supernumerary; they are at same time, strictly forbidden to take a sight at him, however great the temptation. “ Buttons,” we are inclined to think, has gained the latter portion of his wager.) (To the Editor of the Auckland Examiner.) “ ’Tis true, Tis pity, and pity ’tis, ’tis true.” Sin, —“ The poor fellow who was declared to be guilty of personation”Mias received a small allowance of unction ftom your friend Swipes, (alias Mrs. Slipslop), who told the Resident. Magistrate that “John Morris was as much puzzled to understand me as I was to understand him.” Adding “ I am an Editor residing in Auckland.” Is our Constitution so bard pulled, that the little man of the larger paper is pressed into active service to persuade the electors that his Master is the Man for Galway. Or is he really trying to be a politician? The duty of an Editor is certain and definite ; h« may now and then descend from his chair and report, or -become a “ penny a liner” incog., but, to be furiouslyadvocating the principles of any party—in person—proves either his verdancy , or his anility to compass every thing. I think you cannot compliment him upon the latter. As a “ penny a liner,” his language is perfect. He compliments the Auckland Bench upon their interpretation of an Act, literally ; because, forsooth they were » Jacking the assistance of a legally- educated “ adviser.” Has your Mrs. Slipslop thrown the mantle of Ovid over his newly manufactured Oxford-street slops ? EqUE FERIS HUMANA IN CORPORA TRANSIT, Inque SERAS NOSTBR . So has some unfortunate disembodied spirit found Mrs. Slipslop’s premises. Falsity is the tenant, and the rent is very high. The valuable blood, that flowed to the cheeks of Mrs. S. (when 338 electors, voted for an individual) did not return to blush at her report of the personation case. Let her leiders not interfere with her reports, and if she will only follow the example of some of her old friends in England (price one penny) she will find that any false report in a small place like Auckland is an imposition easily discovered. The report alluded to opens by “ John Morrison or Morris appeared, &c., &o.” The information only contained one name, John Morrison. Mr. Carleton was the gentleman who laid the information ; yet Mrs. S. would close the “ informer’s case.” She would not even find a few extra long primers to name him in her suo-leader. She can easily afford to leave her child to fret and pine over the educated Editor, because he is educated. The Calf must be expensive to her mother if she does no more work than that of writing down the late Provincial Secretary, late member for the Bay, and Editor of the Southern Cross. Whatever the peculiarity in the character of your contemporary, none more conspicuous than honest reporting. I, amongst many, would wish to see our other larger paper “ better by the instruction.” Yours, &c., M.P.C. November 4th, 1857.