WATER SUPPLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1000, 19 September 1903, Page 3

WATER SUPPLY.

r (To the Editor of the Times.) Sir, —“ Do you know what Soapy told the keeper at the asylum yesterday ? ” & asked my wifo on my return from work. Ho sez to the keeper, “ Mr Keeper, vote for "Waiherere arid lunacy. I lived there . for many years and for six months in the 1 year I couldn’t got a wush.” “Tom is 1 woll rid of the whole business,” sez I, by way of getting rid of tbo question. My wife is not easily put off. Sez she, “ the insurance agent was round hero this morning, and was tolling mo about that great letter Mr Townley wrote to the paper. ‘You know that old saying,’ sez he, ‘ about chaps rushing in where angels fear i to tread.’ ‘Ah 1 ’ sez he, with a sigh, I Mr Townley i. 3no great letter-writer. Ho told the lunatics of ratepayers that they would save over £BOO a year when I know very well that my company will not reduce tho premiums by a penny, and sure, why should they 2 when tho Council have arranged for an eight-inch main that will not give lire pressure.’ And then there was that Mister Erank Harris down at the corner this morning trying to convince Mister Devery that all the opponents to Wuibirore wore capitalists —‘ It is capital versus labor,’ sez the wily Hnr- I ris, But Mr Devery sez that he was not too sure on that point, for he noted that all thd bank managers, heads of commercial houses and many others who wore not themselves affected by tho rates were the most eager to make tho poor man pay. ‘ Tako that strip of Whataupoko and Haiti out of it, sez Davory, in ,

winding up, and then I might vote for it.’ With that his friend, Hmcssy, of boot fame, comos along aad says, ‘ shure it was amalgamashun they were after, and a

grate and comprehensive scheme for tho threo places. Mister '‘•Miller joined in tho controversy. " I like Mr Millor,” sez my wifo, “ Eor the is a grate chap in an argiment. Ho kapes on talking all the time, boiug fully convinced that it is tho only way ho can bate his opponent.” ‘ Sure it’s Mister Lysuar chat I have most respect for,’ ho sezs, ‘ Eor ho alone is actuated by conshionshus motives.’ He then showed the “ lunatics ” a grate plan like somo of them mining fellows always carry about with them, showing the grate golden boaring reefs in fine red and blue writing. Sez he, ‘ You must trust the surveyor for lie has been over the ground and knows where tho reefs are,’ and then Mister McGowan, the grate bowler, comes in and soz as he was positive that Soapy Tom was no more mad than he was, and that they would next be sending him off to the lunatic asylum because ho had the oourage of his convictions to vote against, the proposals. Moreover, he said he was agoing to stop his paper because the editor had culled him a lunatic.” “ I wish you would get away and wash your dishes,” said I, “and give me a little peuee. I have had enough of water for a whole year and don’t care twopenco whether they carry the proposals or not. “ Allright ” said my wife, “ I must get on with mo work because I promised Mister East I would run along to his moeting and hear what he had to say about “ fichus.” “ Ail the ladies of West End will be there.”—l am, etc., Plain Bill.