Original Correspondence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 222, 15 July 1848, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

To the Editor of the New Zcalander. Sir, — In a late number of your paper, there appeared a Romewhat facetious, but at the same time a very sensible letter, on the snliject of hod roads, dirty streets, &c, &c, signed by a Mr. " Jeremiah stuck i' the Mud." I hope I am not trespassing upon your correspondent's province in calling your attention to a very glaring nuisance. I allude to the shambles or slaughterhouses which are to be found in the very heart of the town, and which in their sights, sounds, and smells, have so many claims on the disgust ok' pnssers by. There is one, in a street called, I think, O'Onnell strrct, in the immediate neighbourhood of te Poßt office, where business is carried on to a lar^c extent, und which has peculiar advantages for txliibit ing its abominations, being in the centie ol a populous ncighbouihood, and in close vicinity to two schools,-— that of Mr. Gorrir, and that in the Mechanic's Institute, — the children of which are tuu»ht crnelty gruti'-, by looking through the paling while the slaughtering is going on. Now, Sir, my object in troubling you with this letter is to know whctht'i there is no way ol getting rid of this and similar nuisances, if it were properly feet about ; br it is a pity that the convenience of two or three should be con«ulted at the expense of the health and comfort of a whole cotmnu* nity. I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servnnt, Auckland, 13th July, 1848. [We do not usually insert anonymous correspondence'; hut having ourselves been eye witnesses, and having received many and well founded complaints relative, to a similar pestilential nuisance existing betwixt Fort and Shortland streets, where offal in various stages of corruption, putrescent skins, and filth of every delite* lious compound, are piled, we brg to call the serious attention of the authorities to the suppression of an abomination, which, we ore credibly informed, has already been pregnant with disease and death, and which is in contravention of the incipient slaughtering ordinance, whose provisions it would be well to enforce ere theßummer sets in.— Ed. N. Z.]