THE LAMPS.
To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sra, —Observing the gracious announcement in the Star, that his Worship the Mayor is about to leave the City to attend General Assenbly duties at Wellington, x it has occurred to me as being very' remiss on the part of our chief municipal magistrate that he has not long ere this caused “Old Sweet Smell ” to arrest the inebriated
“ Secundo Curd ” placed at Wise’s corner — t.6., Princes and Rattray streets —to be brought before the Bench, fined, taken away, and set up straight before this, seeing that he (the lamp-post, not the Mayor) has been out of the perpendicular for the last twelve months. As an orderly member of society, although not a total abstainer, I am of opinion that the Mayor should bind him over to take the pledge, and stand “ upright as a City bobby,” seeing that it is setting, “ as it were ” (excuse the Provincial Couucilism), a bad example to the frequenters of the burs that he (the lamp-post) should be allowed to show an unsteady light from off a staggering post, be it Millar’s sou of a gun or one of blue gum. Yours, &c., Passim sparc;eke luckm! June 7, 1870.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2212, 9 June 1870, Page 2
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204THE LAMPS. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2212, 9 June 1870, Page 2
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