TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 September 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Housekeeper.— The following way to harden tallow is taken from an American paper. Well and slowly boil the lard ; it is one essential towards making it hard. When melted for candles, add four ounces of alum to ten pounds of tallow.

C.B.—(UpperHutt.) —Our correspondent says, —“ This district like the ‘ Auburn ’ of the poet will soon be a deserted village. The laud is not worth the labor expended on its cultivation, and its inhabitants will eventually find themselves either at Manawatu or the Wairarapa. The totara at the Hutt is nearly exhausted, and will not fetch so much by 25 per cent., as that sent from your district. A good totara tree here is worth £5, and within a very brief period the Wairarapa will be to Wellington what the Upper Hutt has been during the past ten years.” Tnere is room and to spare for every settler in the Hutt in this district, and it only wants a tramway to Wellington to make timber here comparatively as valuable as it is there. J.P.—We thank you for your interesting letter and are glad to learn that the Mercury meets with your approval. We trust that your prediction will be verified, “ that this journal will be the means of infusing a little more enterprise and public spirit amongst us.” R.S.—Says, “ I think a brewery would be sure to pay well, not only because the cost of carriage operates as a high protective duty, but because barley would ripen very equally in this valley ; a matter of great moment for malting. It is sad to think of how little enterprise there is amongst us.”

Constant Reader.— (Heifer Station).—The Grcytown Road District cannot be divided until six month’s notice has been given in the “ Gazette ” and the Mercury of the intention to have such division. You are well represented in the present Board, and it will perhaps be better to wait to see whether the present Board like the Provincial Council is incapable of doing justice to an outlying district.

A Subscriber. —Montaigne says, “ We suffer ourselves to lean so much upon the arms of others that our strength is of no use to us.” It is 'now the fashion to talk about self-reliance, but we doubt whether we are not more in love with the name than with the virtue it indicates. What with Parliamentary grants, British troops, the proceeds of land sales, and an enormous tariff which have one after the other lent us their aid, we have come to expect everything to be done for us, and a pauper rather than a salf-reliant spirit has been thereby engendered. It has had as ba \ an effect on the energies of the colony as the anticipation of a legacy has on those of an individual, and hence the total absence of all enterprise and real exertion. Bede. —Your letter, and a reply to it shall appear in our next.

A.Z.—We have received your very interesting letter too late for insertion but we shall have the greatest pleasure in giving it insertion in our next.