"To spare thee now is past my power
Thou bonnie gem."

K. McK—z—e. The "Colours" question was thrashed out at two general meetings of the Students' Association and we cannot afford space for a fruitless discussion. We believe you are right in thinking that the Mackenzie tartan would suit your style of beauty better than green and gold, especially if taken with kilts. Perhaps some of your lady friends can explain to you the difference between orange and emerald green and gold and olive green. Try the ladies who carried the motion.

M. W. R—ch—d. The quotation you ask for occurs in A Midsummer-Night's Dream, V, I, 175, and runs thus:—

"Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne!"

Mystified. You are mistaken. Victoria College was not established (1) To add lustre to the name of the Chairman of the College Council (2) For the convenience of the Janitor.

S. S. M—z—e. We have no hesitation whatever in rejecting your wild lament against Students' Socials. No doubt, as you affirm, you did derive a more ethereal enjoyment from esconcing yourself in the highlands of Day's Bay, but the example is a pernicious one. We recommend you to study the precepts of the College bard.

"And who would mirth, song, waltz, decry,
Down among the dead men let him lie."

Football Second Fifteen. Your pluck in challenging the Ladies to play you at Hockey is creditable, though your rashness cannot be commended. The Ladies explain that in consequence of Tournament preparations they felt they could not, from putely humane motives, show their antipathy to the footballing section of the community by wiping out the 2nd Fifteen.

H—gh M—k—z—e. (1.) For dictionary purposes we should say that chickens hatched by an incubator were "orphans" and your definition should be extended accordingly. (2.) The "mother" or "brooder" is used after the chickens are out. (3.) If you feed chickens on plum pudding and fatten them off on "tin-tacks" and haggis they will not give you any further trouble.

Secretary, Hutt County Council. The Ladies' Hockey Club, having taken legal advice, find they are in no way liable for the removal of earth from the——Hockey Field-Possessio accessio. Counter claim, 11 hands and a referee cleaning drain, 1 ¼ hours.

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P. W. R—b—n. Your suggeston that 80% of the Students' Subscription List should go towards establishing a fan-tan saloon in the new building betrays a hopeless moral depravity it were well to conceal until you have booked your passage Oxford.

Pr—f—s—r K—r—k. Under "The Public Health Act. 1900" a nuisance is created (1) where there exists an accumulation or deposit which is offensive to the public or injurious to health, whether such deposit consist of sharks, or any part or parts thereof, dogfish, crayfish, meats, frogs' feet, or bug specimens, (2) where an offensive trade or biological research is so carried on so as to be injurious to health or unnecessarily offensive and distasteful.

H—s W—r—sh—p the M—y—r. You have our sympathy. We suggest that your proper course is the obtain an order requiring the abatement and prohibiting the recurrence of the nuisance caused by the fumes from the College laboratory. We advise that you join Pr—f—s—r E—s—t—r—f—d or R. E. R—d—n as a third party, since it is extremely doubtful whether the College Council would be in a position to pay costs.

O Alma Mater, come to us
Thy children dull and bright,
Too long as orphans we have lived,
Send down on us thy light;
And may we as the years roll on
Become more worthy thee,
Making a name to live for e'er,
Growing in dignity.

Au Revoir

We have toiled through the moonlit evens,
We have broken tryst with the sun,
That here a Pass might be entered,
Here first-class Honours won:
We have had our game together,
With the journey home in the rain:
We are off for the Long Vacation,—
So-long till we toil again.