TO CORRESPONDENTS'

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 1, 5 January 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Alpha. — The suggestions of so intelligent a correspondent shall always receive due consideration. “Alpha” says — “You must urge the immediate erection of the Telegraph, and that it not only come through Greytown, but that an office be established there. Much smaller towns in Canada have. By its aid you ought to be able to tell us before breakfast the price of bread and butter at Hokitika, and our appetites should be affected accordingly,” We have not in our present issue done what our correspondent suggests, because we take it for granted that an office will be established at Greytown. Ada. — The practice of being “asked at church” or married by banns is now very fashionable in England. Only vulgar people are married by license. In the “good old times” not only were young people married by banns, but married persons could not take a long journey without the mutual consent of both parties made publicly known. It is easy to ridicule both practices, but they may not the less be wise, precautionary, and founded on good sense. J.B. — Your letter is inadmissible. Attacks upon private character are grossly improper in every case, whether conveyed in the shape of a sneer, a censure, or a joke. The public have nothing to do with the matter, R. asks, “What would not a few trees, a little paint and decent fencing do for the appearance of the houses at the Hutt and of this valley?” The question is a very proper one, and we hope to see a practical answer given to it, if not by the people of the Hutt, at all events by those of the Wairarapa.

R.S. — The questions both with regard to the establishment of a Branch Bank at Greytown, and the inauguration of a Brewery Company on the limited liability principle, had engaged our attention previous to the receipt of your valuable communication. The latter subject is one which requires to be treated at greater length, than can be afforded in the Space we have set apart for answers to correspondents. But with regard to a Branch Bank, surely the population and wealth of the Wairarapa are both greater than they were at Napier and Wanganui when branch banking establishments were opened at those places. The question is one, at all events, deserving the attention of each of the four Banking houses at Wellington. Dairymaid. — The latest and best receipt for salting butter is the following: — Mix 4 ounces of saltpetre with 4 ounces of loaf sugar and crush them to a fine powder; add 8 ounces of fine table salt. Put one ounce of the mixture to every twelve ounces of butter. If the batter is not likely to be kept long, a smaller quantity of the saltpetre and sugar, and a larger proportionate quantity of salt will be an improvement.

Jemmy Clatterbox. — Your letter came too late for insertion. We shall be glad to hear from you again. The Wandering Minstrel. — Your lines shall, appear in an early issue. Joseph Masters. — Your letter with reference to the Maroa Small Earn Settlement is in type. Articles on the “Rival Battle Cries," and “Justice to the Wairarapa,” have been crushed out of our present issue; but will appear in our next.