FOUNTAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 3476, 14 April 1874, Page 3

FOUNTAINS.

To the Editor. Sir, —I am a man with a grievance. When I came to business this morning, I saw the pavement cut up opposite my door, and a large blue stone with a hole through it, as if it was intended to erect a lamp-post. I said to myself, that it is a healthy sign to see our City Councillors going in for more light. You may judge of my chagrin when I found that the cutting-up of the pavement was preliminary to the erection of a comparatively plain fountain. I know Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London well; and in neither place, I am sure, would it ever have been dreamt of to erect a fountain in the main street, when there was a public reserve such as the Octagon within fifty yards, - Your readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that there is to be ne fountain in the Octagon, the place of all others most suitable for it! We generally find our public men have a knack of looking at things from a queer standpoint, and 1 suppose it must be to keep up the consistency of the character that our City Engineer has’ thought fit to select a site for a fountain which, I venture to think, if he had gone fa little farther north for he would have found one more appropriate, more convenient; and altogether more agreeable to the wishes of nine-tenths of the inhabitants of Dunedin. The pavement is too narrow for the traffic even now; and this fountain, if erected, will make bad worse, besides having the effect of making it continually wet. I trust our Councillors will see to it before it is too late.—l am, Sto., David R. Hat. Dunedin, April 13,