THE WATER.

Evening Star, Issue 3622, 1 October 1874, Page 2

THE WATER.

Qtd t .. * ST 1 ® haS ben a lu *tter of surprise to taVsras Z public grievance. has urn- t’u ventilate a complain of the’ qualk? P l° PtiT t0 piiad to »■>,- ; v ,u ua, icy of the water sup* El pa 8t of Dunedin for som P e taste P and T oil I Blmpl * ttb ominable to the the smed ni n y°«. Mr editor, that drew tonw Bome the said water which I ’ nv was quite offensive to ray not’ °:~ l z oifa r ry L nerves - so Innrr ID g B has been allowed to exist bo long without complaints from all and sundry, lamat a lon to conceive. I

member that some little time ago Dr B. ke■Well published the result of an analys s m id by him of the water in the Company’s re servoir. and that g> nt'eman favored na with a graphic description of the cyclops. cmsta ceana and what not, th.it lived, moved, an-; had their being in our favorite beverage; and that too, when I, in my simplicity, thought that the water was all that could be desired Bat if Dr Bakewdl or Professor Black would make an analysis rf the water now supplied to us, 1 wonder what we would be told tin 1 we are swallowing every day. Something awful to contemplate, I dare say. However, thanks to the late weather, I have collected a good supply of rain water, which I intend to use for culinary purposes and I would advise all others *ho have any recard for the r own and children’s health to go and do likewise. There surely must be something rotten in the state of t'enmirk, and when 1 am called on for my water rates won’t I grumble, that’s all. —I am, &c , Joanna Jake, Dunedin, October 1.