The Evening Star. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1871.

Auckland Star, Issue 472, 15 July 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1871.

" For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do."

We congratulate the Harbour Board on one practical step which they have taken in the removal of that abomination commonly known as the " Maori Market." Its dilapidated appearance and its filthiness within, have greeted the stranger arriving in the city, and ns the first institution observed on netting foot on terra flrma, did nob tend to convey very favorable impressions of the refinement of our civilization. The impression at the same time made on the olfactory nerves by the exhalations from the river of death disemboguing in the immediate vicinity were naturally associated with the filthy den and the filthy inhabitants who had their temporary accommodation over its mouth; and strangers were led to believe that the horrible stenches that greeted them on their arrival in the city arose from this hostelry permitted by citizens to exist in defiance of all considerations of decency and health. The removal of the ugly structure has effected a wonderful improvement on the appearance presented by the entrance to Queen-street, and if the Board will only keep their attention fixed on the same offensive locality, and originate some' system to abate the horrible nuisance that projects itself from the realms of the City Council into those of the Harbour Board at' this particular spot, they will win the everlasiing gratitude of all decent people in the city. Certainly the city which has created this nastiness should be obliged, like nightmen, to shoot its filth elsewhere, but the clebateablc ground of the intake should be annexed to some district, and subject (o the administration of some power. Ihe Harbour Board being a kind of amphibious institution may be legitimately expected to exorcises llie rights of sovereignty, and accept its responsibilities over tin's important but highly offensive portion of she earth's surface ; and wo do trust that, being just now on the improving tack, the members will proceed and improve this abominable; !"i of filth, and nursery of fever out of oxistunce.