TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Observer, Volume IV, Issue 84, 22 April 1882, Page 90

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

GrISBOitNE. — -Write on one side of tlic paper only Hobson-streot. — We don't encourage contributors wlio only want to stab some enemy in the dark Piako.— Shoot folly as it flies. Satire should shave clean like a razor, not cut and slash like a scythe Constant Subscriber.— H.l.M.S. Habicht has gone to Germany. A letter takes about six weeks to reach there A.B. (Dairy Flat).— You neglected to prepay your letter, which was not worth the 4d. We had to pay for it W.B. (Thames).— Your contributions must come through the "regular dustman." B.T. (Gisborne).—You dare say you will be a regular correspondent to the Observer, do you ? Not if we have any say in the matter. Why should a girl become the subject for your scurrilous malevolence merely because she happens to have been an inmate of an Industrial School? Shame on you ! Maori Land.— Set your lines to a Jew's harp or a German concertina. They are too awfully pathetic for us Pat Balliver. — Stale Tachauab-r-Rubbish Howick. — Leave the girls alone Brown's Bay. — According to your showing you. are a mean sort of fellow. You are a "constant reader" of the Observer, though not a subscriber. We know a good many more like yon. As to your question, we think a gum-digger who has correspondence and contributes to the postal revenue, has as much right to sign a petition for the removal of a posit office, as any settlei-, whether his property is mortgaged or not. But a gum-digger who regularly subscribes to the Observer has a better right to sign a petition than either of them ; while a man who pays twelve months' subscription in advance has the undoubted privilege of signing anythiug he likes, except someboby else's name to a cheque Volunteer Lieutenant. — We do not agree with your severe strictures on Captain Webb's " Volunteer Manual." Wo doubt it contains errors, but these are not serious, and the book contains such a mass of useful information that, as a first step in a praiseworthy direction, it ought to be treated with indulgence Goosequill.— Please call on the editor Constant Subscriber.—Thanks. The sketches are really excellent, and the young artist should be encouraged to continue his studies. He would soon make a name for himself.