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THE POST-OFFICE.
TO THE EDITOR.
I am, Sir, &c.,
C. R. M.
Sir—I have daily looked anxiously through
your columns with a view of finding some of
your numerous correspondents making com-
plaints at the manner in which the private
boxes at the General Post-Office are managed,
but have been as yet unsuccessful, and there
fore have resolved to be the first on the list.
The Government receive something like £200
(two hundred pounds) annually, as proceeds
from the private boxes, and yet one is com
pelled, and this very often, to wait from five to
ten minutes at a time, and sometimes longer.
Now this manner of working cannot continue
much longer ; if it does, all I can aay is, that
Mr. Todd will soon find his list of box pro
prietors decreasing faster than agreeable ; and
I trust that I shall soon be followed by abler
pens than mine, which it is hoped will have
seme effect upon the Postmaster, and thereby
benefit the business people of Adelaide, who
are not in a position to lose so much time by
waiting for their letters—while if you do not
possess a box, you have your letters delivered
three times daily—and on the other hand, you
have ts go to the Post-Office yourself, and pay
a guinea into the bargain.
Adelaide, 26th December, 1873. >
B«ked Goosebcbbt PoDDnra.—Scsldaqaut
of gooaeberries In water until they are soft, j
drain, and when cold work them smooth with a {
spoon. Add half a pound of powdered loaf*
sugar, four ounces of fresh butter, four ounces
of bread crumbs, and the yolks of four and the
whites of two eggs—more eggs may be used if
liked. Beat all together for a quarter of an
hour. Strew sifted sugar over, and serve either
hot or cold. __
A Wobo in B>AS(ur.—Here is a kindly word
from Lord Ebury on the Condition of the
Agricultural Laborer:—At Bfokmanaworth, dis
enaring the question of wages with ref erenoe to
the allegation that high wages leads to drunken
ness and erime—Considering tbe bub prioe of
provision* and fuel, he thought It mi high
time wages should be Increased; but he wished
that the iaoresae could have been got without
such violent agitation and Invective, which has
caused ao much ai-wfa between elass and data.
He wished also tint he eould «ay that it was
unaccompanied with lntemperanoe; but so long
aa humanity remained what it was, we should
never get any considerable amount of good
without a considerable admixture of evil. He
was inclined to think, as time went en aad
laborers became aconstomed to the higher
wages, that they would learn to appreciate these
advantages, and oae thorn to a better purpose
than Intemperance. The navvy was the highest
paid of unskilled laborers, and when railways
first began to be made there ware aotuddnmbia
eomplautts of their conduct; but ainoe than h*
mold not only girm bis own, but the testimony
of every polios director In the kingdom, that
there was not a better behaved class to be found
than the English navvy.
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