ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 80, 11 August 1863, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT HOLD OtmSEI/VES RESPONSim./E TOR THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED MY OUK CORRESPONDENTS. To the Editor of the Invercargill Times Sib — I am not fond of rushing into print wiiji a pet grievance, nor of even blaming Governmentofficials for their public misdeeds, but there are occasions when it becomes a duty to deviate from this rule in order to expose either gross ignorance or stupidity, — I allude to laying down fascines composed of flax, birchwood, &0., in the public thoroughfares. Any one at all conversant with the dangerous effects arising from decayed vegetable matter may well feel alarmed for the sanitory condition of Invercargill during the coming summer. Any person walking through the streets and inhaling the ' detestable effluvia from rotten flax, and the other substances which these fascines are composed of, will, I am certain, arrive at the conclusion that unless something is speedily done to remedy the evil, an epidemic, perhnps unparalleled in virulence, • will be the result. I ask you, Sir, to use the influence of your pen in endeavoring. to.ha^e ( a stop put'at once to the laying down of fascines, as " they are not of the slightest use, but, on the 'contrary, highly dangerous to health, ; ! : ' Yours, &c, ;■■ .Medico. ■ »' — - — — — — ■" '' '■ (To the Editor of the Invercargill Times.) ' Sir, — I beg, through yionrrjbumal/to call the attention of the sheeji of 'this -provioc^tb^ a clause in '' the ' Canterbury Sheep Initiations^ obliging all runhbldors with sheep^'pn their ruDs to put up a dip, so that in the; eyent of ''seal? breaking out' on' a station the'sh'eep ran be 'dressed at once, when^ there is very little ''-theL matter 'with them, ahd v the disease; easily Stopped:' Vllshouli; recommend the Government to intrbdiico alike clause this "hexfc' "session, _ as^we ire certain '-to; import a good inariy sheep' andl nfost -likely scab. In this disease "a stitch in time saves nine." ' I' am, Sir, your obedient servant, I — " i P, L. FfiXircis.