Original Correspondence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 82, 10 February 1864, Page 6

Original Correspondence.

* # * Our columns being impartially open, we do not liold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our correspondents. To the Editor of the Lake Waka*tip Mail. Sjßj—Can you enlighten us as to what has become of that functionary who, some time ago paid a visit to the householders of Queenstown, to warn them to look after the sanitary condition of their back yards ? Have the Town Improvement Committee and said functionary become simultaneously defunct ? From the manner in which filth of every description has been allowed to accumulate lately in the rear of some premises, (it would be invidious to mention names) I, for one, cannot help inferring as much. What with pigsties, dead rats, thrown out in scores,—yea, in hundreds—to fester in the sun, I can assure you, Mr Editor, that it does not require a person of such acute nasal organs as Inspector Nimon, who the Dunedinites affirm can smelljat a great distance, to ferret out the defaulting parties. The odour assails our olfactory nerves rather unpleasantly at our firesides. It is no doubt desirable to get rid of as many rats as possible, but these when killed, instead of being thrown on the streets and into back yards, should be thrown into pits and covered. I am, <&rc, Non Civis. ♦ To the Editor of the Lake Wikatip Mail. Sir,—Allow me to draw your attention to a slight error into which you have fallen in noticing the change of business in my case. 1 have received no transfer of business, as that would necessitate a transfer of license, if allow* able ; but as I hold an entirely new license of my own and hope to make an entirely new business, you will oblige me much by setting the matter right. Trusting I am not asking too much, I am, dear Sir, yours, D. McKenna. Queenstown Auction Mart.