OUR LETTER BOX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 33, 9 February 1904, Page 4

OUR LETTER BOX.

IWe are at all times willing to publish correspondence on matters of public interest, but it must be distinctly understood that we are not identified with the letters of our correspondents.—Ed. Daily .News.) THE SABBATH QUESTION AUAIN. (To tine Editor). Sir,—J, along with many of your leadeis, am pleased that Mr Oollis cam so emphatically deny any taiupvring outside of necessity by our civic authorities with the rest which should be characteristic of one day ill seu-n. 1 may, perhaps, be allowed to point out that, granted all U.is, there still remains the fact t-ijat through all our arninigyments t.o-d<ay, there runs a scarcely concealed ignoring oi the Sabbath, and one has but to watch the ordinary columns of our press to note continual record of liuppt-ning and arrangements re Sunday, which, to a Uunkinig nriiKi, iimlicute that we are rapidly ivlrograding on this matter. Water polo practice at uur public baths, rouiK, games at our mountain house, rogular departures of lara* forties lor the mountain on Sunday ultennoons and lute at night arriv-ii or circus on Sabbath afternoon picnic parties ad lib, blackberryiug excursions, and a host of minor tcc'upane.es on and aimless spe iding 0 , «■*> day, all conspire to i„ake\n ;ni W 7 ~M , U tha >*" :. ' vlJ "' llll " i "' o '" I '«''itaniail and ANTi-STHAIT-LACE (To the Editor.) o"'. to the clfectuiatal the is--7 s gathering, on Thursd.iv ].,>* were not all „, Hcotch '«"* you are likely, I believe, toha vc a sprinkling of Caledonian items on Watarl IX '™ U ''S Catalonia at misleading.-I alll> £ " k * lu b" I HECTOR, A. hoss Hon. Sec. N.T.u'.S,