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CORRESPONDENCE.
' J. B.'— Your communication has had atten
tion, and will appear in a day or two.
' A Working Man,' who frequently conveys
le&weed from th« H*-minhnr« Keax^h. -nunmit»
that « boon would be conferred on horses and
men engaged in such traffic were the Sema
phore Council to lay down blocks of wood to
form a roadway for the loaded carts as they
ascend from the beach to the metalled roads.
He says that tbe old wooden blocks lying
useless on the road near the Gawler Station
would answer the purpose well and hut for
years. His idea is that the Semaphore Cor
poration should obtain the blocks and have
them laid, and then refund themselves for the
outlay by charging a email toll on the carters
of seaweed. It may not be generally known
that seaweed ismuch esteemed for packing, and
also as bedding for horses and for mulching in
soils lacking in salt.
'Enquirer.'— The pastoral districts of New
Zealand may be readily approached from the
Bluff or Port Chalmers. If yon oad a certifi
cate from tbe local Inspector there would be
no hindrance to your dog entering another
colony.
'Charles Whittle,'Weetulta. writes:— 'Can
you advise me whether there is a practicable
route, with wagon and team, to Charleville in
(Queensland, and the approximate distance';'
'Maria Klaebe' writes: — 'Be the baby
farmirjg case of Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, you
statA that Mrs. Klaebe, who kept an establish
ment of the lying-in stamp, relieved the
mother of the care of her child for £12.
Afterwards Mrs. Reynolds offered to take
charge of the child upon payment of £-j,
thus enabling Mrs. Klaebe to make a profit of
£0. I never made one penny by the transac
tion, having returned the £G to the mother of
the child, and as this is likely to do me an
injury in my profession I shall thauk you to
insert these few lines.'
'Geography,' Semaphore, writes a3 follows:
— *' With regard to the suggestion by a corres
pondent that the dispatch of a scientific ex
pedition to Western Australia by the
Christiania University was probably the result
of the sending to Sweden of a duplicate collec
tion of botanical results of the Elder Expedi
tion in Western Australia, if some wiseacres
suggested that the probable reason far a
proposed expedition to be dispatched to
Western Australia by, say the University
of Adelaide, was due to the fact, the
University of, say Sydney, had received a
collection of botanical results of some previous
expedition to Western Australia ie would
cause a smile. There is about the same likeli
hood of the University of Christiania dispatch
inc an expedition because Sweden had received
a duplicate collection of plants.'
'' Practical' write3 : — A cricket match that I
ehould like to see arranged would be between
the eighth Australian Eleven and the following
fourteen : — Worrall, Lewi?, Barrett. Phillips,
Tarrant (Victoria), Iredale, Donnan, Callaway,
Pierce. Coningham (N.S.W.), and Reedman,
A. Hill, Delaney, and Haldane (S.A.), with
Jones as emergency in case of a dickey wicket.
If such a match could be played in Melbourne,
where the largest crowds would be sure to
attend, and the proceeds devoted to the Broken
Hill Relief Fund. I am sure a special effort
would be made by all the players picked, and
our boys would start on their tour with light
hearts in the consciousness of having used
their talents in a good cause.
'Agnostic' writes: — 'I am at a loss to
know what claim the Scripture Education
League have to call themselves National, as
South Australia was merely one of the pro
vinces of a greater Australia. The League
says — ' We want the Bible rt-ad in the State
schools,' which is a sophistical statement, for
they want only what they consider will be
suitable extracts from it. The Catholic Church
in Ireland in the present day is in a more
vigorous condition than when Archbishops
Whateley and Murrav united to plan the Irish
Scripture School Reader, which is now become
obsolete in the Catholic schools. It can there
fore only be regarded as a Protestant pro
duction.' As we cannot allow this discussion
to include controversey upon the inspiration
of the Bible we have emitted part of our
correspondent's letter.
'James Murrie,' Georgetown, writing in
reference to Mr. Burton's Boys' Home, states
that at the conclusion of the conference of the
Boards of Advice last year he and several
other members of the country Boards visited
the school without notice, and all came away
thoroughly satisfied that Mr. Burton was doing
worthy work, and their only regret was that as
members of Boards of Advice they had no
power to assist him. Our correspondent
warmly eulogizes Mr. Burton, and especially
his wonderful perception of the differences in
temperament shown by different children, and
his insistence upon occupation as tending to
prevent them from going wronj. Mr. Murrie
thinks that the establishment of a State Truant
School womd increase instead of mitigating
present evils, because the institution would be
little short of a prison under another name, and
the result of gatherinfc all refractory children
together would be obviously bad. 'The
Government should place a block of land at
Mr. Burton's disposal, so that he might take
charge of the children and make the institution
self-supporting by growing fruit and vegetables
for the Adelaide markets. Let him be ap
proached upon the matter.'
'Percy W. Dyer' considers that 'E.
Bnrney Young in anticipating the discomfi
ture of Mr. Green .has managed to hang
himself with a very short rope I presume
that Mr. Green, like any other Christian,
prefers a well- baked loaf, and does not eat
raw dough ; the heat in baking bread would
be quite sufficient to evaporate any alcohol
that might be present in the dough. Your
correspondent further states that unfermented
wine is unmitigated nonsense. This is grand
lope. If * E. B. Y.' will refer to his Bible
he will find the following : — ' I took the
grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup,
and I pave the cup into Pharaoh's band.' And
also, 'Wine is a mocker.' This I think is
pretty strong language, and shows that wine
is a deceitful ihinjj and is Iwst left alone, at
any rate by healthy peopW We shall be
glad to have the article which our correspon
dent promises to send, but of course we
cannot guarantee publication before perusal of
it
'W. H. Wilkinson,' Moonta, writes ex
plaining that his recent lecture, mentioned
by our local correspondent, was not upon
'Orangeism,' but 'Protertantism and Pro
sperity,' and that the Rev. A. P. Burgess
presided.
'H. Jones,' Brompton Park, referring to
the cases of Jones and Herd at the City Police
Court on Thursday, says— 'The plaintiff,
Jones, my son, admitted in cross-examination
having challenged Herd to right on Christmas
Day, and that he took h:s father to see fair
play. I wish to explain that my son was so
confused by Mr. Ash. solicitor for Mr. Herd,
that he misunderstood the questions which led
him to admit what was not true.'
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