j ■ *. t PIOKWIOK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMIRO HERALD, ! Sißj— Kindly .' allqw me the publicity of ypur columns for the purpose of suggesting to the management of tbe Pinafore Opera Com pany the advisability of producing ' Pickwick " on the first night of their appearance instead of on Saturday. Tho exigenmas of business will prohibit numberless people from attond ing the theatre on the latter day. As many, I tako it for granted, bavo nt ono time or another witnessed Offenbach's "Itoso of Auvergno " (wbioh is billed for tbe first night) they perhaps will not tnke tbo trouble of renewing acquaintance with it, whereas if the opportunity was given thorn of listen ing to tho brilliant humour and sparkling , music of Burnand and Solomon's latest pro ■ duotion, Pickwick, they would, I bavo no > doubt, wiht to fill tbo houso t>> repletion. • Whilst on matters theatrical would it be out. of place to nek the kind propriotor of our otherwise oosy little theatre to givo the ; stailites somowhat better accommodation m! the matter of the last three or four rows of ■ backless forms. In tbri* present state thoy. are an abomination, and romind ono rathor of ; the bare planks that did duty for seats m tho j canvas booths of good old Bicbardson than • the comfortable accommodation usually pro. vided nowadays. I am, &■<!., , ' FIBST-NKHIXEB,

Mr Boatty Kingston, a journalist traveller ' resents the stigma of indolonce no commonly | put upon the Tnrit. " Evory unprejudiced Briton," ho contends, " who has bad pornonal ' experience of tho Ottoman Empire will testify ! that the Turkish peasant is th.o mont hard; i wording,' sober, content nrid orderly man of hisWaWin Europe— a model of laborions ' ness, honesty, ond general good conduct, 1 whioh thd Bgripultun»l population! of Wot- i 1 tarn realms would do well and wisely to copy [ m their own habits and behaviour." ASbtbebeya Hall at Twickenham m the i year 1890 (iay« a Home paper) is rather a , startling disoorery. The eyidenoe pToo how ■ ever, at Brentford County Court teems to leava no doubt that the Hoy. Burham Pegg I has bson cooduoting an eduoational establish* f ment very much on the Hneß of Mr Squesre 1 r Smous eeipinavy. 