Flotsam and Jetsam.

Manawatu Herald, 12 November 1892, Page 2

Flotsam and Jetsam.

(By Motciti.) .-,... (Continued.) . As soon as we felt better we wended our way slowly up the=sfainstreet and studied humair ntftitre. It was not Saturday night, but : ti»ere were quite a dozen people in the street, perhaps even twenty. Then we thought for a change we would give our hags & spin on the racecourse, v Captain's nag Is a lialf<4>*ed marej but of course is not a-ptitcJh on : rnine. So we quickened ''their' -vital k and were passing the State Sc&dol When—" Oa, jurnpitf" Jehpshajjhat ! There is that dead dbg ; again ?' It was Captain who spoke, and there was a wild tremor as of deadly fear in his voice. " No, Captain," said I; '"no. That is not a dead dog. It may t be two dead dogs and a heap of dead cats Or it may be a dead sheep or two, or' a fleadcovtf, ; br a jackass. J3ut one_,idea<l dog — no. Let us investigate and find the truth." By this time we had come to a halt. "Truth be hanged!" exclaimed Captain ; "this is too much. . Lafc's go to Cawston's and have' a '(jurjiitf." So we hurriedly turned back, Ireht down the Avenue, and were again revived. As soon as we felt better, we' set out this time by the side street lead£ng, ; down., t% #wk ; ftifeßc Hall, thinking that' perhaps Wperu fumes were chiefly confined, ,to the main thoroughfares, but we! were mistaken. At the. Public Hall, that perfume might have been cut with a ftmfeV* 'fieri* we *iße*^^fifl3.a Borough Councillor and asked the meaning of this wide-spread diffiisibn of perfume. " What perfume £" said the Borough; Councillor-;: "*I feel no perfume.". .-'*■■ What! no perfume here !" said I ; " but perhaps you call it stench?" : '? No,'?, said the Councillor; <4 I feel no stench." " You call it s — fc, may be ?" iput; in Captain. " No,'* said the Councillor ; "I do not call it s— k, for there Aa no such thing in or about Foxton. Cpme along ; tp and have a drink, "so we went" to AVhyte's and talked the mafte'r over at length '^ith a/Bveral wise men; ;<And one jaid there were no: smells, -,, abput and another said there were no sewers, and another said there were no drains, and another said there^ were, no, dead v dogs, another" said there- were-iio' eartli pans, and another said there were no, rags, arid another, said that sanittftipn ~vfas all '•'•• rot. Jii • And'l-said'-td-niysetf.: Tins" will never do. Ttte siijaineriig at hand. Qholei'a is iiot v'e^fit off. Typhoid fever is nea¥.^ Thr^t'^dis•eases are already 'rife in the' tfewfi and district. By their criminal negligence people, f fitto •a'ilowrag ' the getfms' 'of l tfeeie 1 -'-aim other ;diseaßes to "be propagated,, by million} " TEe fekeHrig'-h^W corruption abpul; ib^e .flaxn^llg,, ia the back yarJls.'bn "the 'n\et batiks jaffe already beginning 1 to tell their tme. And what a; sickening 'tfeiel it Ist " Is there nothiijg. i|o bft.dope : ? §Hfdly prevention is better than.cure^' Senife time ago I r noticed that : the Borough Council had appointed ,?tbe/< : lipQftl constable, a . moat; .compelieiit ifioton, Inspector of.NuisaneeSiv; TJaftt^waga step, and along step tpoV4iilfhs T litfl* direotion. But, jehen their Inspector asked for a 4efim'tion t Gf his dftl^iitJlf Council coolly .refused .ipstructions, Fancy, the Inspector of Nuisance^ without ihsfcruotions; *ith fii^'t'inds tied, without powef' td*&H h %m the Bproifgh .Bye-laTO^ ,itj^ems, notably section' ; 69 of Mk m, are too stringent. ' They are so strict as to" be unworkable. Then'-'bu'k'^ttft Bye.-laws, and make others .t.hai_ga& be worked. Surely something can be done^t6,'make'tjiis to/trn cleAr and fit to live inr i Ihiring 'the 'late outbreak of diphfcheriav I .am ihfornlpd, every town on the coast as far as New Plymouth paaaedi .stringent sanitary, regulations; Inspectors qf Nuisances with power to aoirwari appointed ; the regulations! w©w carried out;; and: now, eyeiyi.town, on the coast is cleari-^ali bdk Fbxtom In the name of public /deeeaay. ,an 4 public health,. why shouH.FQxton, bS foul ? Happy thought. An election for the Mayomlty is airhftfld^and.' it is understood there is to be a. contest for tb.at :> honourable poatl^q, It may fairly be talUo ig««rti4 that each qf the rival candidMß>ibgf Aw« ■ scheme or>/pl«nv^ tfiidefaHton thought out and fully maturediint hl# own mindgqridß^igh .bo»pjftposes to work for the good borough during h^s term of office.'* Verar. well.' Let each' of %mZsiti&fi& or both together^ if they think fit—

call a meeting of the householders prior to the election, and put before that meeting a plain clear statement of his plan, and how he proposes to carry it out. But more than this, and even if greater moment He should be able to state what prospect he may think he has of being able to influence a majority at least of his Council to back him up in carrying out his plan , if elected. The presen t position, of affairs is really so serious that the "do nothing " policy is little short of insanity. That there w%B f Bomething rotten in they state .of ; ©ehmark " was remarked; years ago.. It is patent to every nose that that. something now in Foxton is — perfume. Let the rival candidates . take note of the fact I I£aeremnf.