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Answers to Correspondents.

A. M-cD-g-ll.—That settles it of course, your word is more than sufficient. However you must admit that this looks like yours :—

Doon on ma kness each morn I fa'
An' bless ma happy lot,
Fur bein' made vice-president
An' bein' born a Scot.

G. F. D-x n.—Your roundelay "ME and the boys at Dunedin" to hand. We regret etc. sentiment fair, but very egotistical, and "Tournament" does not rhyme with "embrocation." "Wet Paint" might publish.

F. P. K-lly.—Certainly young crickets ought to be encouraged as you suggest, but we can't get the averages. Yours was only obtained at great personal risk. Here it is :— Innings 9. Total runs 16. Average : — 1.7777

John M-s-n —Re "Mason's Euchre." The Rev. J. J. North considers it is not a game of chance as "playing fair" and "playing all you know" are, by your own exposition, synonymous methods.

V. B. W-ll-s.—Be not dismayed. No harm in standing for every position on the executive, different thing if you had been elected. Re "scandalous" crowding at Carnival suppers—full scope is to be allowed you in a reserved room this year : all spectators charged a small fee.

F. n. M-nsf-ld. — Quite so, one can do nothing now-a-days without self-confidence. You should succeed. Possibly one reason for your nonelection as vice-president was due to your failure to retain John Mason as advocate. Other reason are — but space will not permit—

S. E-ch-lb-m. — If we understand you aright the facts are these. As you arose from your seat in the Dunedin dining-car, the attendant called should advise you to let the matter drop.

H. E. Ev-ns. — Your opening phrases "If I could only be sure that she doesn't," etc., etc., strike a very despondent note. Cheer up! If your partner had not said "there are more men than gentlemen here to-night" immediately after your unfortunate foux pas at supper, we should have thought it a mere slip of the tongue. What odds, anyhow, there are ad good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

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