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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 457, 7 December 1880, Page 3

To the Editor.

My Dear Sir,—The circulating came duly to hand at Caldwell's home for the homeless, and when ray hands and throat were free, I done the Swiveller trick, by pledging myself and yourself—in fact, ■our noble selves—in the rosy. The inevitable end came. I fetched Blueskia and its lock-up simultaneously. Ob, my prophetic ! when will it be mens sana in corpore sano with this cosmopolite? Special translation for tho especial benefit of Mayoi Waeckerle— '■ A sound mind in a sound body."

But what the howling savage has become of my swag and billy ? old campaigner Dux made drakes of my manuscript? Has Asbestos, my sweet cherub, you have blown the gaff on me ; you have 1 have expectorated on in\ hands; I have "girded up my loins"; J have unbound my suspenders ; my fight ing weight is still ten stun six. and JutBowers is my bottle-holder.

The "Colonial " here is more filling at the price than Hooper's, and there is a blend of whisky—Oh, glorious Saint Donald McTulloch—that fits me like a glove. If only do Uegor and bis " vila spark" were here, glorious would be he and 3 ours, JOHN SUNDOWNER. Waikouaiti, Nov. 30.