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iente<l with any favor, save it bo a sub scription ftflfftir. It is essential that no prosent be made aftor New Year's Day ; tho evo is to be preferred, and if the article be costly it is forwarded by apodal messenger and, the donor's oard. In re ipoct to the " exohange of cards" on the ocoaiion of theNewiear, the oaitom seems to bo on the deolino ; it* absurdity appear* to havo at la«t «trwok th» Frenoh muid at being grotesque to send your name and addroM to an individual yon have called upon only ft few houra pre viously, or to a porson whom you may havo but once met, and whose " Bristol board 11 is as puwsling to think who you nro, as a learned acrostic. A gentleman is expeoted to forward as many visiting cards as there are males and females in tho family. Happily, the population being stationary, serves In this instanco most advantageously.
ALE

NOBTH OTAGO TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1877.
