TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 86, 6 May 1882, Page 124

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Alice. — Don't send us anything more about the stars "looking down" on you and that young man. You don't expect 'ein to look up. Give the stars a rest...i..M. G. (Pokeno). — You "dashed off " that par, eh ? "We dashed it ott" too — into the waste-paper basket, d dash ie Country correspondent. — Condense. Give us witty, crisp items. Expend more thought, and less ink. Our country correspondence is rapidly ca> tending, and only a limited space is available Anticlergy. — The subject is played out. This is not an organ, for the Howlers. Send it to the weekly " Snuffle-buster." Featherquil. — Too late. Long accounts of bucolic picnics are not in our line. Too commonplace. We only print reports of earthquakes, crinv con cases, instances of honesty, or some other rare occurrence. A picnic in a balloon might answer B. B. (Epsom). — The Africa has gone to Japan. A letter would reach there in a little over six weeks. Send along those particulars B. J. (Parnell).— Enclose your, genuine name and address in confidence. -It does not require much penetration to perceive that you are not only disguising your hand-writing, but using two different signatures. It's a little too thin Subscriber (Whangarei). — Captain (now Sir George^ Grey was appointed Governor of South Australia in May, 1811, relieving Governor Gawlor. He was relieved by Governor Kobe in October, 1845.

American Waitham Watches ■were awarded Two Gold Medals, tlie only medals awarded to Exhibitors of "Watches at the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880. The only Gold Medal, also Three Special and Pour First Prizes, SydneyInternational Exhibition, 1879. The Gold Medal, Paris International Exhibition, 1878. Four First Prize Medals, Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1876, Higher awards than any other Exhibitors of Watches ever received. Buyers will observe the Trade Mark — " Waltham, Mass."— plainly engraved upon the movement of all Genuine Waltham Watches. Trade Mark, Waitham, Mass., registered throughout the New Zealand and Australian Colonies.; Proceedings will be taken, against vendors selling, or ottering' for sale, Watches hearing polourable imitations, or- infringing our rights, — American Watch Compast, Waltham, Mass.