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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1004, 25 July 1883, Page 3

Sir W. P, Andrew sends to the Times the following extract from a letter written by “a distinguished and most reliable traveller ” who has recently passed through the Suez Canal :—“ The Canal is last becoming a home for disease and mischief, and something should be done 'without delay to change it. The frequent stations now contain a good many people, and are growing in size ; they have been constructed for facility’s sake to drain into the Canal, and the consequence is that the Canal is rapidly becoming a mere sewer. If you anchor at a small Jstation for tho night the stench is pretty bad ; at a large one it is horrible and most mischievous. There is a standing joke among the ship doctors of persuading the passengers it ar ses from an unfortunate camel which had just died at each station ; but the unhappy fact is that diarrbsea and sickness at night are common on board the ships, and the evil is daily increasing. It is not possib e to flash the Canal and carry off so many miles of sewage into the sea. But the sewage, properly attended to, and very Easily too, would be of incalculable benefit to the land around if it was laid out Upon it, and the manured land might ... When worn down and ready to take your /bed. Hop Bitters is what you need to relieve ■/you.. See.—[Advt.] 5 , /‘Rough ON Rats.” —Clears out rats, mice, ‘ roaches, flies, ants, bed,-bugs, beetles, insects, ’ -skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. Drugmi. nil. . Mass nn/1 n Qvrlnatf fintinml piloses. Mobs and Co., Sydney, General in a nanasome profit to the com-