“EXPLICIT.”

Evening Star, Issue 2996, 25 September 1872, Page 3

“EXPLICIT.”

To the Editor. Sir,—Would you or any of your numerous readers give me a little inforu ation on the following knotty questions, thereby enlightening one of those benighted New Zealand born savages—wherein scholarships subscribed, railway carriages, but now called Josephines,” go whistling through the centre of our native earth, and sometimes homes, and finally rush headlong into Burke’s brewery, casting its living freight into innumerable glasses of beer, snowing clearly and plainly the correctness of that finger-nail biting, longfaced, and tedious calculation, viz.—One hhd. of Burke’s best contains 500J songs, 304 fights, and two kicks. Well, has this anything to do with the University clock being lighted up ? if so, quote the ways and means oi getting the clock’s figures re-painted. Will the new church at Blueskin be the means of changing many from the rugged aud rocky road to that of staid and straight walking ? If so many give freely, is there any difference between a bazaar and being stuck up by a highwayman ?—One place you have to pay up with a smile, another with a pistol; both very good in their way. But this has nothing to do with the pulling down the front of the Friendly Societies’ Hall. What a happy thought cf Councillor B, ! What au expensive one to the builders ! “ Drop a veil o'er our tears.” Is “ Master H.” any connexion of that great writer and able speaker who wrote the following?— “ Financial commercial report, lady market: Marriages dull, engagements depressed, courtship good and prime, scandal overstocked, belles plenty, beaux scarce and of poor quality. I’d curse for her ; I’d bite for her; I’d weep for her; but blest if I’d die for her—N.B.—Or any other woman.— S.F.Ns” Is it true “spirits” visit the Athemeiim nearly every week ? if so, do or will they end in smoke? Mr 0. says they are neither spirits nor smoke, but humbug. Has that anything to do with the large quantity of thick, sharp, ami rough stones on the cab-stand in front of Briscoe’s? 1 say it is cruelty to animals. No wonder they go lame, standing on suchhoof-splitting stuff. Well, this has nothing to do with the New Orleans dodge of tying their lunatics by the thumbs for twelve hoius. One paper jokingly, and with a wink, says if it was done in San Fran, to-day, the newspapers of to-morrow would contain editorial matter of beautiful brevity. Well, Mr Editor, when yon give me a reply to my queries I may write again. Till then, adieu. —Yours for aye, Jotinntk Chat. Dunedin, September 23.