A SENSITIVE MAN.— We confess that we

hail the new Post Card a3 a great boon. By using it, we reduce the cost of forward ing ordinary subscription accounts by more than one-half, and are thereby enabled to increase still further the efficiency of the , paper. You say the objectionable feature about it is its publicity. No one, how ever sensitiye, should feel ashamed to let all men know that he is a subscriber to such a respectable journal as the Witness. In the Australian Colonies, and in the Old Country, (where they have been in use for years), they have knocked the more formal " letter " almost out of existence. SCRIBE, Mount Ida —The subject of your communication is not sufficiently important

to warrant insertion at such great length. Your style is not concise enough. D. J., Dunedin. — We are obliged to consider all classes of readers. Your request is out of all reason. M. S., Balclutha. — A London newspaper gives the following suggestions for pacldng flowers to be sent or carried some dis tance :—": — " Always cut the flowers early in the cool of the morning, and vrhen in their prime. Take a piece of cotton wool, wet it, and wring it out, then twist it about the stalks. If tin boxes are used, they must not have sharp corners, or they will be re jected at the post office, but, when properly made they excel all others for the purpose in question. At the bottom of these place a piece of stout brown paper ; let this be well damped, then lay the flowers carefully in, placing a piece of silver or tissue paper between each, to prevent their bruising each other. Over all place a piece of the same paper, and on this a little cotton wool- Cover the box with paper, and the flowers will reach the extremities of the kingdom in good condition. A Farmek, West Taieri. — The first practical, harvester was invented in 1833, by Huasey, of Maryland. In 1834, the reaper was in vented by Cyrus H. McCormick, who still carries on the business of manufacture on an enormous scale in Chicago. Pbtruchio, Lake Wakatip.— No.
