TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 131, 17 March 1883, Page 420

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Fair Ajiaz on ( Waikato) . — Sucli a match, is out of the question ; if your love of the military is so consnmiug, take a volunteer. No minister who knows his business would marry yon to a man of war. She is a ship, nota soldier Pit and Stalls. — Supermiinararies, they are employed to entertain the audience till the curtain rises. Mr Abbott did not import them from Australia with Fred Maeeiibe ; they are the common opera house flea (pule.v histrionica) and their corpulence is merely the natural result of a generous diet. Sit with your feet in a tub of water or wear stout leggings New Chain asks how to keep mosquitoes from the face at night. — A foul breath will drive them away ; consume lots of beer and tobacco. If they still persist in banqueting ou your polished brow, console yourself with the thought that every guest will die before sunrise in the most excinicinting agony from blood-poisoning. Another good recipe, if you are married, is to let your wife sleep with her feat outside the bedclothes, if not, judging from the size of your handwriting, one ot your own feet will be enough Anxious Wife enquires how long it will take a man to drink himself into delirium tremens.— We don't know ; we never tried. It is an unheard of proceeding for any man to drink himself. We have enquired at the Police Station for a precedent, and Detective Walker told us that, in our innocence, we misapprehended the question. He apprehended it, and replied that no man was ever known to work himself up to that pitch of felicity at his own expense ; with borrowed money, the process is easy and rapid, but if he steals the money he will do it against time, and win. Let your man steal it by all means if he is in a hurry about it Pork Butcher.— l. To cure an adult pig take Cl Na lb X : KNO3 zll misc : hor ben Me : to a respectable chemist and he will look you straight in the eye to see what ails you, then he will mix two ounces of saltpeter with ten pounds of common salt in a mortar, put it carefully up iv double wrapper, seal both ends with greon wax, write on the label, " Rub well ia for an hour," charge you fifteen shillings, and tell you not to let the children get at it. 2. They use Latin and symbols for the same reason that Mr Milner Stephen uses red flannel and blowing, to cure by faith. A prescription written in English would not cure the infantile nibble of a flea's last baby. ,

All entrance fees to matches in connection, -with the Auckland Rifle Association must be paid on or befovo the 21st inst., to the treasurer, Mr Hazard. Firing will commence at one o'clock, sharp, on the day of the match.