OUR LETTER BOX.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 June 1887, Page 2

OUR LETTER BOX.

(To THE EniTOH.j Sib, —l suppose your next issue will contain an “ ad " offering a premium for the best name suggested for the Bay. I'm on the job, and want to be first, as some of mjr ideas fit so obviously that I fear being fore* stalled If I wait. I opine that there are about three conditions necessary to fulfil H* quirqments—euphony, appropriateness, and benefit, or two out of the three at lealU Though Victoria in a manner fits the. two first conditions, I must protest against it as being too great a jump from the ridlouloue to the sublime (because somebody else pro* posed it.) I; - the first place (not for com* petition) I assert that such an opportunity o( beneflttina the district may never occur again., (Then let it be advertised in your wide spreading columns that the certainty of ta. mortalizing a name in connection with whal will be soon known all over the world M the great N.Z.E.C. Harbor of Refuge is for Mie by private tender, and expect applications from all ends of the earth. One condition waved for each cypher after three. Consider the hundreds building Hospitals, Homes, die., for mere local fame, and here's an opening on the map of the world, in a prominent place, in large capitals, and a refuge besides. No. 1 for competition—say that the lueue a non present name finds favor, the same principle can be carried out equally by adopting PpJ, bity Bay. There are three ebnditions, and little change on the map. No. 3—Lawyer! Bay or Nicks' Bay (synonymous), Ist and 2nd conditions. I don't pin muon faith in this suggestion as, like the ferrets, weasels, Ac., which are engaged to die when the rabbits are exterminated, the lawyers must soon die down to the balance of nature. No. 3—The successful candidate in the coming election—no conditions met—Look! might have a chance of being picked. I shall keen over those which I know no one else would think of until I see the reward offered.—! am &e., Nomen. [We don't quite see the drift of our correspondent's remarks. Perhaps our readers may’.j - -