Differences of Smell.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 142, 20 February 1886, Page 6

Differences of Smell.

Tub olfactory organs are very variously constituted, il is clear, in different people. What to one man appears a more detestable i odour than the seventy - two stenches of Cologne, to another seems as delightful as "the sweet south that breathes upon a ■bank of violets." Thus it came to pass, no doubt, tnat the residents in, a certain quarter of Shoffiold lately arrived at the most antagonistic conclusions respecting the fumes emitted from the chimney of a tallow tnelter. Those not connected, with the business deposod that they and their families were absolutely poisoned by the horrible odours. Medical testimony abundantly supported these statements, and the case seemed made out. But the defendant had an equal number of witnesses, chiefly hia own workpeople, who deposed that the so called nuisance was no nuisance at all, but rather the contrary. No bad smells ever came across their nostrils ; no illness dominated their households. In fact, according to their showing, anyone in quest of a perfect hygeia should pitch his tent as near as possible to a tallow - melting establishment. As it would bo entirely without warrant to impute wilful misrepresentation to these witnesses, we fall back upon our original proposition, that, to paraphrase the well-known saying, " What's one man's perfume is an other man's stench." Such, then, being human nature, it would seem advisable to set apart some of the country for tallow melting, guano manipulating, bone crushing, chemical com pounding, and other businesses of a kindred nature. Were this done, people with curiously constituted organs of smell would know where to go to for a whiff or two of their favourite air.

At a meeting held cat Mokau on Monday, the native obstructionists agreed to allow gold prospecting to go on over their territory. Messrsllobinson and Gordon, contractors, who carried out the plate-la~ying work on the Thaines-Kopu section of the railway, have been adjudicated bankrupts. The estate shows a deficit of £1,100,