CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3608, 8 September 1890, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

K'• ■; An MosiraMo, "Pisaohi" '""■''■•• j (To'the'Editor.)- ''' ft|||||k Sir—On 'Saturday about; 12.80 after I retired for tlio night, I yiunil footsteps coming from ths individuals, who " wlio werna •'■-••• fou but just Lad plenty," enough, ; . ■'; perhaps to muddle their brains-if ; ; '• anyono in the wildost flight of an '■ oxcited imagination could give them oredit for htMJ any. lii any case they evidently mistook my window l ' for a punching machine, although it ■;'•' did not register just how many | pounds they hit. The glass flew iff '■ all directions. Getting to the door i' inaßmuchhasteastheciroiimatances V w#ld permit, I found that they had \ "gfee without even wishing mo good / night. Now I wish to state for the information of the two gentlemen (?) , in question, that is if they are really mentally conditioned to understand n plain statement, the next time they get prowling around at midnight and feel likepunching something, I should prefer that they punch my head instead of the window, ac in that caso I should be the only sufferer. _lf I have a hobby in the world it is certainly ventilation, but I am convinced now that sleeping all night slit of a window pane, with the tlltboraeter at Zero, if not riding it to death .is at least carrying it to oxcess.-l am, &o. J. 6. Maokay. Masterton, Sept. 1890. Sudden Sn&' [Bv Teleobajh.] (From Our Own Correspondent,) Ak Cartebion, Monday. Parker, of Waihakeke, is dead, having succumbed yesterday to ; inflammation of the windpipe, He i was at work on Saturday. Tho fatal ' terminations is therefore very sad \ and fearfully Biidden. His life was : J„ insured in the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £2OO, a for- ; tunate provision not long sinoe made. | He leaves a widow and family, ,