UNKONWN RTH CLOSETS AGAIN

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1665, 19 June 1875, Page 3

UNKONWN RTH CLOSETS AGAIN

To the Editor of the Evening Siar

Sir, — lam an amat.ur gardener, not a gardener, and as this simple statement of fact has immediately to do with tbe topic on which I how undertake to write* I would first say that it precisely iind especially involves nearly all the answer to' the question pertaining to above heading, asked by many, as to "how to do it ;" and, goodness knows, we have been long enough tormented with the large and extremely recondite information of " how not; to do it." Well; now, the difficulty regarding earth clo_ets, tso much alluded to lately, is, really, how properly to get rid of the tilth ; there cannot of course be a difficulty about rigging a proper temporary receptacle for it. To get rid of it ! Why, I do believe that, some day soon, there will appear in all the newspapers an advertised competition for getting the excretea for manure : for it is well known that when mixed with garden mould not only is etink destroyed, naturally or chemically (a fact), but also that the c mpost is a proved highly superior manure A small garden, say of much less than a quarter acre ; five or six resident statute adults ; a half bushel, oblong box-drawer ; a shovelful of mould or ashes thrown in once a day and "once for all;" emptied about three times a month ; three heapstovered w ifch earth and kept up at one end ■ of the garden ; oldest heap used first when digging ; —and the stuff when three or four months old looks like chocolate, and is odourless. Thus not an atom too much for necessary manure. Now, surely, we had better not and certainly need not go into this matter any further, lest we, unhappily, "put our foot into it." Above description is exactly " bow to do it," with profit, with little trouble, and with no nuisance. I have worked the earth-closet at my place nearly three years, and it is "all light," and more. Townies having no garden may, if they like, advertise their valuable stuff for sale to the highest bidder. But 92 per cent, of tbe people of this province have ground connected with their residences. Enough. The matter only wants simplifying, and to be in operation, simplified.— I am, &c, W. E. Sadler. Upper Parnell.

T^Tbe police want owners for an open-faced English lever watch, a small single-barrel pistol, and a mettal scarf ring set with imitation ruby.

Winter Evening Entertainments.—The time of year has arrived for lectures, concerts, and entertainments of various kinds.' To aid the Good Templars and afford caterers of public amusement every facility, the present proprietors (Messrs Holloway and Garlick) have determined, after the Ist June, to let the City Hall at much lower rates than formerly. This Hall, the best situated of any in Auckland, and unsurpassed for its acoustic qualities, will be let for ten guineas per week, or two guineas for a single evening. These low terms prove the proprietors are doing their share towards proving cheap amusement—Umbrellas are necessary companions on winter evenings, and Holloway and Garlick, having a very large stock, have resolved to clear them out at unheard-of prices, and have marked down : gents' good silk umbrellas to 7s Cd, 9s lid, 12s Gd alpaca to 4s Gd, Gs Gd ; ladies' alpaca to 3a lid ; silks to Gs lid. Call early on Holloway and Garlick and secure one.— City Hall, 230, Queen-street.