Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 953, 1 August 1878, Page 2

Correspondence.

Sib, — AVhile Parliament is sitting, we luok anxiously out for our papers, and surely the authorities might contrive to allow ua a daily mail now that the train reaches Ohaupo. When Kihikihi asked for a daily mail, a mounted inau was sent fr^ra. Alexandra to perform for t;ht?in the

west and the twilight crept o'ev moorland and lee — see any novel oxpoem for minuto description. Then the ricli young man began to get skittish and wish he was at home, so he imparted a genth hiut to his companion that they had bettor g-o, etc. Now, (he lady had looked the door of the steeple, assuring the young man iliat it was the sexton's imperative com maud. Down the steep narrow stairs they came, and at the bottom the lady felt for the key m her pocket, but no key was them "Gracious me," says she, m a most hits' riotiic manner, " if I haven't gone auil dropped the key out ot the window. Its fifty feet to the ground. Whar will b( c'ime of us ? To stay m this steeple all night with » man and show myself afterwards unmarried would kill me," etc., and she toll on the young man's breast iv a paroxysm of weeping. That young man was cool and business-like. He waited until she turned off the water, then kindly seated her on the lower step and started upstairs. " Heavens, Joseph, doar Joe, you ain't guiug to jump r" * " Not if I know it ; you just wait." Presently he returned wi'h a bright smile on his face and the bellrope under bis arm; gently, but firmly, he took that thirty-five-year-old young maiden up stairs to the window, and, m spite of her entreaties and cries, tied th« rope about her waist and lowered away. The conventional ploughman, homeward plodding his weary way, saw, as the moon rose, a parti-colored ghost dccending the face of the church steeple, and he began to plod faster, at the same time whistling a tune to keep up his courage. But curiosity, stronger than fear, caused him to take just one more look at the apparition, and what was his surprise to behold, against the steeple, two barred and striped objects that loomed like the clown's legs m the circus. The ploughman stood rooted to the ground, and then down came ghost number two, and, as it was a dark and masculine looking object, the ploughman - rallied from his fright and approached the spot, when ho beheld a lady and gentleman quarreling, and the lady calling the gentleman a " horrid wretch." No cards.

service that was bo urgently required for ourselves. I trust that we have onlybeen neglected by uu oversight, which will be at once remedied if you will kindly call public attention to the mutter.— lam, &c, Postboy. Alexandra, July 'J!', 187 H.