CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 200, 30 August 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.

To the Editor of the Evening. Stab,

Stß, —A month or so since it was stated in your paper that a movement was on foot to endeavour to get the hour of closing the Reading Room extended fiom nine until ten o'clock in the evening. It appeared to me that so desirable an improvement met with general approbation, and I have heard that a petition to the Committee in its favor was numerously and influentially signed. Can you or any of yeur readers give me any information respecting it ? In one of the copies of the Illustrated News is a key-plate to an engraving of the City of Oxford. Where is the engraving ? Would it not be as well to fix it in the Reading Room, where it could be referred to P It must be very interesting to many of the frequenters of the room if not hung too high up, like the map ot the Thames, latfely presented to the Institution by Mr. W^yte. And lastly, for the present, what becomes of the Evening Stabs, Southern Grosses, &c, after the first few hours on the day or evening of publication ? They shine or twinkle for a brief period, and then are Been no more. I often wish to refer to ' #yestorday's paper," but it is non est, and I am fob bashful to trouble the hard-worked Librarian about it. •Before I conclude allow me to congratulate the Committee on the improvements they have lately made. " May they livelong and prosper," for there are plenty more before them.— "piinta &0,, . --~'""r '', i .'.A ' ?^a toQTOmr*