Our Letter Box.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7750, 28 February 1905, Page 2

Our Letter Box.

(We are not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.) 'HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE." (To the Editor.) "Theirs not to do or die, "Theirs but to pay and sigh noble two hundred." Unless my memory, which is at present painfully active, has misled ,me, thcro has been a very .improper | apportionment of the credit duo to —Homebody—over the manner in which the exhibition has been, or ratlier was (1 use the preterite advisedly), brought to such a successful conclusion. . In the specohes delivered at the time by the mutual , admiration society, credit and pruisc were liberally scattered, but unless my memory deceives mo thore was no sufficient eulogy of those useful genulumen—the guarantors, i Now lam informed that those genfJomen arc taking remarkably l well the fact, paralysing to a man of poor courage like myself, that .there is a shortage, and the pocket alarm has already been sounded. I have not heaid any grumbling or seen u single sour face. This is as it i should be. Hut I think that we who have benefited by the efforts of these gentlemen, should express in some titting way our appreciation ol their nobleness. Jt i s interesting reading to turn up your contemporary of the date of that never to be forgotten'banquet, and, sec that It is tho unselfish action of the guarantors which enabled such orations ,to be delivered and listened to. The l'reiuier aUso owes these gentleman u debt of gratitude for a. delightful ,tr*p to the hoary summit of old Kg--mont, and as for thu. travelling and tnppsng and impulse to the business of the grocer us hoc -genus omne, its amazing* There is u sublime latthin the action 0 f the dev„ted two hundred, which ,i n a utilitarian age such as this merits our deeped ,adm.rat,on. It uilght almost Jong to those extivmoly old times called •faith " WUgaAH " tl,u ase * o(

All what a beautiful thing is self. ™er,licc. I thrill when I uJ-tak tt„ f t ""': a }>" or water drinker, have enable others much wealthier tiTnj cockles „? ha, ""«K nc - H "arms the he ch.ldren has a bad cold . through a permanent shortage of boots. J froin abler pens than mine what properly would miuire a golden ,~„ to express adequately, but will conclude by hoping that some abler i>en than mine wi n take up (h(s inU , r< i Nt . ins subject, and let us know, if possible, on a basis furnished j,\ the accounts of the different Committees, whom else we ought to praise. In the meantime I would suggest that a bank overdraft would be a particularly appropriate- sort of tiling to present to the guarantors. It would keep their minds in a proper devotional spirit. Pardon uiy nom dc plume, but I am like a lot of other ><>eople. modest to a degree, or oven several degrees.—l am, etc., JT.MIJO..