To the Editor of the "Noxtu-Cutwa Darty News."
Sin,—Having read "Kaee's" as well as "Sharky's® comments on what ought, and on what ought not to in the Customs service, one cannot help but dismiss such letters with asmile. The reason, why these gentlemen should endeavour to decipher such problems, and state quite unfounded grievances, is best known to themselves. It niust be admitted without reserve, that the longer a man works in a certain capacity, the more efficient he becomes. is practical experience that is required in such an institution as the Customs service, and this cannot be achieved without one being actually engaged many years at such work. Theoretical teaching is here of no avail; it is enough, to know the rudiments of it, and everything else must be gained by experience. As to the discussion of " Kaeo" and "Sharky" in regard to certificated seamen, I will point out a certain case, which quite recently ocourred in x Treaty port. A Customs employee, holding @ master's certificate, and who only a few years ago left his berth as chief oticer, was called upon to make a small survey of a channel; he proved that he did not know rears babies OF MARTYRS. " jurprisod to cee another employes off the ere anything about it, and was quite the Editor of the Customs taking horizontal angles with a "Norr-Cutwa Dany News." sextant. Now this is not the only one on Si,—Evory fair-minded reader of Mr. record, and it follows, that a man in the Clough's letter will be disposed to belie capacity of Hi that he wrote "from the fullness of his heart, without rancour" or conscious able to make a trigono-"prejudice." The subject of missionary metrical survey, does not need to be ab-work not being confined to the native solutely a "certificated seaman." So far Jand of the missionary, but involving as the Customs service is concerned, a danger to life in regions remote, is, how. certificated seaman is no guarantee as to ever, an ancient one, treated of at con-his conduct, discretion and general ability, siderable length in that old book "The and many such have proved to be failures. Acts of the Apostles." It was because The work on board a ship is one, and the those early missionaries did not confine themselves to Judea that our ancestors ived their initial impulse toward the HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND tion whose idea! is for each to love PILLS. Much watchfulness must be exis neighbour as himself. And especially ¢rcised at all times, and the earliest as the world grows smaller every day does @Vidences of ill health must be imthe word "neighbour" widen in scope mediately checked, or a slight illness may until it includes the race. Home mis. Tesult in a serious malady. Relaxed and sions will never be out of date while any Sr¢ throat, diphtheria, quinsy, of our countrymen are either living lives eter Loop stadt of in unutterable slums. Every steamer of sordid motive or are.herded together Pupnoes Ths cooling biattadirgrarst leaving our shores emphasises the need of S*i,88 near as practicable to the seat of redoubled effort at home. But it is the aecie®; This eaten characteristic of Christian privileges, Sioval of flag ly adapt imp and during infancy and the re-surely, that they can only be retained by being passed on to others, even as in the first instance they were passed on from afar to us. That principle once accepted, it has been naturally felt that beyond the boundaries of the Treaty Ports, with their Youth. Old asthmatic invalids will derive marvellous relief from the use of Holloway's remedies, which have brought round many such sufferers, and re-established health after every' other means hed signally failed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.