TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 25, 24 June 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Visitor. —Your letter with reference to the Waihinga Ferry, being unaccompanied with your real name and address is inadmissable. Bev. W. EoxAldsox.— Your excellent letter relative to the salting of butter came to late for insertion. It shall appear in our next. E. —Your lines on ‘ A Wife's Duties” are hardly up to our mark. We have only room for the following verse, which contains very good advice : “ When he comes home on a cold winter's night, Have the hearth neatly swept, the lire burning bright; Let his arm-chair be ready, bis slippers well air’d, The cloth neatly laid, and thesupperpreparedi” F. —(Wellington.) Things are worse at Auckland and Dunedin, If you doubt the fact read the following which we extract from the Dunedin “ Evening News,” a very lively and readable paper published at the “ Southern Capital:—“ Times are had, money is scarce, trade is over done, and credit suffers, bills are daily renewed, and capitalists plead poverty, and the really poor stand aghast and almost say and do nothing. Houses are dead cheap, and some house owners are using their houses for firewood. Dulness is universal and Melbourne and Sydney are not exceptions to the general rule.” The truth is that the taxes are too heavy, living too dear, and wages consequently too high ; and all three, like water, will have to find their level before any permanent improvement can he effected. H.C.—We thank’ you for your interesting communicrtion and shall be glad to hear from you again.