QUERIES.

Evening Star, Issue 3352, 17 November 1873, Page 3

QUERIES.

To the Editor. Sir,— ls it true that the directors of the National Insurance Company forgot themselves for the benefit of the general shareholders ? Is it a fact that the directors of the new opposition Insurance Company do not intend to take more than one thousand shares each ? Can we depend on the rumor that the Government have written to Dr Livingstone requesting him to act as immigration agent for New Zealand in Central Africa, and that those immigrants he procures may be expected in the same vessel that convoys Mr M‘Bend’s immigrants to this country ? Is it really true that the Rev. Mr Stanford would rather appeal to Philip drunk and free than Philip abstainer ? Why do publicans charge sixpence per ale when it costs them only one penny without adulteration ? Can it be true that our liberal drapers intend closing at 2 p.m. on Saturdays without Bradshaw’s influence ? Is it beyond the limits of truth to say that the greater proportion of Saturday nights’ female purchasers exhibit their purchases next day, being the Holy Sabbath, in our two principal Presbyterian Churches? Is it desirable that respectable females should perambulate the streets at a late hour on Saturday nights ? Were they in the habit of doing so in the Old Country ?• Are the manners of the rising generation prevailing here taught in our public schools or at the homes of our children, and is it possible for any improvement to bo recommended ? I am, &c., Semper Fidelis. Dunedin, November 13.