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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 419, 23 April 1879, Page 2

' This is what a Timaru paper says about the Empire City—“ Wellington is not a very easy place for a stranger to find hi a way about when he is once 1 off the beach ’ ho readily loses himself among the narrow lanes, and alleys, and slums into which the newer parts of the town have been cut up by speculators, and which’ will one day render the city all but inhabitable. We heard of the plan of describing the whereabouts of a particular house, though, the other day, which was rather good. A visitor from abroad passing through the Empire City, asked a person whom he met in the street, where a certain well known resident lived. The answer he received wis something like this—“ Go on straight ti I you come to the next stink but one. Tuen turn to the left, and keep on that side of the road 17 stinks, when you will find another turning. Cross over there, and your friend’s bouse is just beyond the eighth stink on the right hand side. It has an open drain and a dead dog in front of it. You can’t miss it. The slops of the whole street meet just there.’ The visitor sent his card by post and got on board bi& steamer as fast as possible,”