CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 170, 21 July 1870, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

— o To the Editor of .tue Nelson Evening Mail. Sir. — In your issue of Thursday last, you state that you have been requested to call attention to the fact that a sum is always placed ou the estimates, for the protection of the banks of the Maitai. 'Ihis information is, I presume, intended in 6ome way or other, to affect my letter to you of 12th inst.; but as I fail to see in what respect it does" so, I shall content myself by saying that the Council in voting money for such a purpose, practically acknowledge the justice of the suggestion offered by me, — namely, that the expenses incurred in protecting the banks of all permanent water-courses, should be defrayed out of the general revenue ol the Province* and I sincerely hope "that this suggestion may very soon be acted upon iri full. It may perhaps reem unnecessary to say more on this subject; hut it has just occurred to me that this vote of the Council may seem to some to justify the statement made by Mr. Burn, but I think I may be excused tor saying that it does not do so. I repeat that, the Board of Works has spent large sums in checking the wayward tendences of the Maitai, in the vicinity of Mr. Burn's property, and as I have already acknowledged that expenses so incurred should be borne by the public generally, it must be clearly ; evident that all I object to, is, the unwarranted affectation of liberality displayed by Mr Burn in saying that he lived in a portion of a street which had paid rates for. years, and not had a sixpence expended in it; but yet he* thought the Board had acted fairly in the appropriation of tbe money, lam yours, Sic., I Fiat Justitia.

7 I? is proposed to present tbe Rew. A. Stock with a suitable testimonial"- for his? strenuous- and long continued 'efforts on behalf of Walter Trick'er." ' • - ; The Dunedin Echo says :— A friend of ours, who has a very philosophic manner of criticising every subject,. whe n appealed " to as to- his opitiion of Mr. "Vogel's" financial scheme, stated, "It jbst lacks . one thing." What is that ? ' ! we ! asked. He replied, "There is no proposal. in ifc to pay off the national debt of Great "Britain. '; If it bad such a scheme; it would have ,' been the greatest success yet ma'de by Mr. Vogel; lacking it, it is absurd." . A Husband in Trouble. — Last Tuesday night,, as Mrs. Stansbury was about to bring a bucket of water from the Hydrant, she found an old basket suspended from the knob of the front door. Putting her hand into the ..basket she found some- - thing "alive aud kicking," but so enveloped in soft material that no further discovery could be made without nuwraping the object. . Apiece, of paper, like a , letter, lay beside „ the animate bundle. Mrs. Stansbury very quickly turned into the house, and by the light of the lamp sho examined the billet. It was/addressed to her husband. In a great state of excitement she broke the seal and read as follows : — " To Joe Stansbury— Sir, — I send you little Tommy, which you will please take good care of, and bring up right, so that it may turn out to be better than its daddy. 01), what a sly old rake \'ou are ! Who would thiuk that such a staid, sober old spindleshauks could bo such a tearing down sinner. Look at it — it is Joe Stansbury all over. You deceived me shamefully — letting on to be a widower ; but now do a father's part. Your broken-hearted. P.S.— Don't let that sharp-nosed wife of yours see this, letter. Gammon her with some kind of a story about matters and things." Mr. Stansbury was in tbe basement kitchen, quietly eating his supper, aod little did he imagine what a storm was brewing over his head. The door of the kitchen staircase was violently thrown open, . and Mrs S. yelled out angrily — " Stansbury, you villain, come up here--' here's a mess for you." Thus astonished, Stansbury very hurridly washed his mouth out and he obeyed the summons in a hurry, " Don't you want to see Nancy— the clear, broken-hearted Nancy ?" cried Mrs Stansbury, wben her guilty husband hobbled into, the room. " Nancy ?— what Nancy's that ! " said the sly old. rogue, in feigned perplexity. "Why, Nancy, the mother of Tommy that has been hung at the door, Mr. Stansbury. Oh, you look mighty innocent ; but just read that letter, and then look into, that basket. Don't be afraid ; it won't bite — it's got no teeth poor thing \ You'll kuow it, for it's just like you — all over. And, please goodness, I'll expose you before everybody I know." And, in less- than five minutes, Mrs Stansbury had collected a room-full of spectators to witness the proceedings. Anxious expectation sat upon every countenance as the; enraged lady tore, away cloth after, cloth from the body of the foundling, the vigorous movements of which astonished everybody. "Itis.full of .'the d 1 already,"' said Mrs Stapsb.ury. ; "That shows it's his ; ypu'l^so^U'See that it is like him in everything else." At last, the swaddling clothes . being ; : removed, out. jumped the baby,: which ;made its escape', through the open door, Tit; was a large tom-cat. The joke was- played upon them by a mischievous young lady 'who .lived next door. — Ohio .paper, •• .*. The Montgomery, Alabama, Mail has a lady for its chief local reporter. A- Troy paper announbed that the polls would be open " from sundown to sunset," at the late election. The proposed annexation of Brighton to Boston is not favorably received by the Bostonians.. Father Smyth, ; the Roman Catholic Vicar-General, died . at- Adelaide on the 30th June, from brain fever. Mr. 'MXcher, of Indiana,' was satisfied ' with his wife, and tn&'d to make her into two with an axe, but was arrested. He is a widower. "•'"' • •'• "■'*" • ••*•'■' A Doctor, detained in court as a witness, .complained to the judge that if he.: was te.pt froip his, patients they .might re- . cover :in ! ihis absence. 1 -■,• ■ ■■■:■> . ■■" -, yy .