So the posts went with letters from the King and his Princes throughout all Israel and Judah and according to the commandment of the King, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and He will return the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the Kings of Assyria.—2 Chronicles, xxx. 6.

Close students of the Bible know that postal work is mentioned also in the Books of Esther, Job and Jeremiah. Of course it was a very simple system—merely an occasional despatch of important messages—a system similar to the practice of various ancient races in the Old World.

While some folk in New Zealand are busily counting their curses they are apt to forget their blessings, of which Miss Nelle Scanlan gave them a timely reminder recently. New Zealand still has an average of about twenty sheep and one dairy cow (in milk) per head of population, and it has many other good things, including the Royal Mail, the world's best postal service—really the best.