Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3298, 2 September 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

Of the man who sold up and rushed, Leaving his debts and a wifa behind, This raised a terrible clamour, And his creditors thought they were bested, (His wife wis attacked with a But lie's lately been arrested, Tho policeman has gone to Lis rest, Aud I can't get an tinnwoi'nt all, To that ratlier amusing request, '' Can you show mo the Newman town hall 1" There's mercy in every placo, > And thatshould ennoble the tisft!, Givo even to busb life a grace, And mako us think fato not; unkind. U. M. Eketahuna,

Municipal Election. Sin—Mucli as I'ara jntereked iu tho progress and prosperity of Mastodon, I lmve at present no tirno to devote to JBorough affairs,.~flnd I do not intend coming fonvfrnjaka candidate at the ' conffiig muniWßH election. 1 trust that others equRHH interested will see it to be their to come forward and take tlioir pftrfc' In the administration of tho aflairm the borough, Tho qliestjon of drained has beeii : Referred ! to'iii tho lei'dirtg . aiid correspondence columns of tli'o local papers. No one will deny tha't that' it is a fatter of yjt'al impbrtatico and tho oj)ly rogpet is that it attracted tl)e attention of thosp ' thoroughly competent to deal with it. I am, Ac,, J. tr. MaCKAV,

According to a well-known uielujdiysieal analyst, a hundred parts of average wor!-!*' tho Spirit of conceit (io'parts; of the spirit of resentment 10 parts; of the spirit of jealousy 10 parts; of the: spL'it, of aversion 10 .piirts j'of the'ipiift'iof indiftoienco.6 parts; of ths spirit of contdhtment 8 parts; and of theajijii of charity 1 jjarf,