ATHOL PLACE.

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 25 January 1876, Page 3

ATHOL PLACE.

To the Editor. Sir,— -Are the “ lords of creation” aware that there is such a locality as Athol place ? If so, what is the private opinion (so called because you must not let the < ity Councillors into the secret) held by your self-made lords ? ! erliaps before advancing your mine might not lie quite so nauseous at Athol place itself. With your permission will draw but a shadow of what one part of the world don’t know of the other.” V; ell, then, Athol place is Athol place—that’s a fact, ’pon my word, but that is not the sticking point I want to get at, but this—How do you suppose “ Another Eucalyptus” lives and thrives m this mnltum in pan’o sort of place. Well, then, it's just this, he don’t live in it at all, but simply exists. The employes of the ‘.Corporation won’t allow such as lie to live. I’ll tell you how. Every hot, sultry day, just such as have lately been going about, they send one of their employes to shoo-fly the way before them, which he does thiswise. Arriving at the identical moment when the “ noble animal ” is about to proceed to his daily occupation, he commences throwing the most perfect secretion of stagnant vegetable decomposition—the accumulations of the surrounding neighborhoods, from the legal receptions, alias the gutters — either across the roads on top of the verdant pastures near, or the crowning metal of the constructed (?) streets. This delicious sort of public work continues until the whole is thrown from pathway to wayside, there to be admired whether you will or not, both olfactorily .speaking and also as an optical demonstration of what the minds are composed of whose owners are Town Councillors. I might fairly say optimism is their watchword. We must consequently take what we can get, for to draw blood from atones, having been appealed to so often, is not, I can see, within the management of—yours truly, Another Eucalyptus, Dunedin, January 23.