THE WATER QUESTION.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WATER QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sir,—Your readers must be amused at the comical way in which Dr Bakewell, after challenging a light on the Water question, suddenly turns tail and skedaddles ob the first appearance of an opponent. On*the platform the other night, he had to admit that he was no zoologist. In the letter which he felt compelled to send you, trying to explain the laughable fix he got into, he shows clearly by his contradicting himself, that his knowledge of the use of the microscope is of the crudest description (his twenty six years’ study notwithstanding). From his letter of Saturday night, it is plain his metrical knowledge is equally foggy, seeing he has had to admit, by his silence, that all the horrible diseases which be conjured up before the public were so many bogies, and that after all the Crustaceans in the water ate perfectly harmless. He also, by his declining to answer ' my question, admits that the diagram he exhibited to the meeting was drawn, from some other diagram, and not from a drop of Dunedin water. Driven from one position after another, chosen by himself, 'he tries

now to coyerßis ridiculous defe'at ‘by 'raisitig :a cloud of iifiatters Dr B.' must Hare eitfihrja mott'inflatai- liliSlfc of hisl ’o#fa iiikperioir low estimate of the mfcelligencbbf the, t>(m•iin public when J hp;' a : ptrahgeiy firidfs 'it ' necessary to 1 ehligbfien them Si ’ to* f IbW J bliiracter of an old resident of nbariy a quirtir of a century. He-sneera attaay “ hunplicity of character,” and is warin in his adftnratidn of the polished sham and hypocrisy of : the Creoles ; it is just what I should etpected of on© who has been 'tripped' ttp in the very act of trying to humbug rant ” citizens of Dunedin, T think; however, that the said citizens ; will notsobn forget the insight into his character'which Dr B. ! has voluntarily given; and 'that'in future he will be 'best known as cW the Cyclops or the Crustacean.”—-I amj t Egbert Gillies, i Dunedin, May 7. ' ; i ,