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Answers. to. Correspondents.

Pr-f-r E-st-f-fd.—No. We find on looking up our Latin Dictionary anil Grammar that the College Motto should be; translated "Wisdom is more to be desired than gold." Your free translation "Education is to be desired for the sake of more gold" is certainly an ingenious guess, and it harmonises to some extent with your "specialist" theory.

Minister of Education.—Your valuable treatise "Architectural Fallacies Exposed "though somewhat vague in detail, is another proof of your versatile mind. It has been submitted to a Committee consisting of the unsuccessful competitors for the Victoria College design. Pity you don't practice on some of our Primary Schools.

Editor, N.Z. Times.—Your communication re Rhodes Scholarship declined. It has been reserved for your perfervid nib to suggest that at certain denominational schools "the education imparted is in most cases on a par with that obtained at the University Colleges." If there is in N.Z. a parent who could conjure up "conscientious objections "to sending his son to the N.Z. University, what do you suppose he is going-to do with his "conscientious objections," when he sends his son to Oxford. Clap-trap. Sir.

Mr. St-m-t.—In re door lights. Your theory of economy is quite sound and skinned shins do heal. All the same "Fiat lux"' is a very good practical every-night motto.

E.M.B.L.—If you make application to the executors of the Editor, material for an iron ring will be delivered to yon.