STINKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 89, 14 April 1875, Page 2

STINKS.

TnE neighborhood of Hardy and Waimea streets was a few months since afflicted with a powerful stiok. People didu't like if, and were loud in their complaints, Such a thing- should not be tolerated. It was disgraceful that io the centre of the town the noses of passers by should require to be plugged. So the Town Board determined to remove the nuisance, and they constructed a blick sewer, the ** fall " of which was suggestive of the old nursery song, " Such a getting up stairs." However, full or uo full, they succeeded in literally "removing" all occasion for holding the nose in that vicinity. Hardy-street may now ba perambulated with impunity, even by those who have neglected to provide themselves with pocket-handkerchiefs, but unfortunately tho nasal organs of all who have occasion to pass the Postoffice are assailed by a concentrated essence of the stink that lately rendered the neighborhood oi "Patterson's corner" so undesiruble a place of residence. Anything fouler or more more abominable than the state of the atmosphere around the mouth of the sewer at low tide it is impossible to imagine. Compared witb it the aroma emitted from a night-cart Or a pigstye is as ''Jockey Club," " Rondoletia," or " Eau de Cologne." And yet Nelson prides itself upon being n healthy aud a cleanly town. Bah ! We have just passed the Postoffice — " and the scent of that sewer clings to us still." The quotation is slightly paraphrased but disgustingly appropriate.