CORRESPONDENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1889, 12 August 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

\ SANITARY. /; & j To the Editor of the Thames advertiser, f ifitt,—l am very much, surprised to see i in your issue ot Friday last that the i lleultii Ufficer Ims asked = permission pf 3 tiie Council 10 compel hotel-keepers "and 3 others to have .earth closets, i consider t the idea ridiculous. Why should a few ) individuals Will have to pay the r heaviest rales ('which are near at hand) i be saddled with the expense of providintf ■ ; such closets and having Jhem emptied P t> Where is the prepive'd'earth to come, ' , from? it must be dry. It would cost i • .'iich 1 hoiel-keep.u' nearly £1 per week. ! ; Eirtli'closets are the b<-st that can be $ had. In Melbourne abuut six o'clock - , every morning a man brings a bag of * dried earth, fills the box and empties, the ;*■ J pan. I consider it is the duty uf Lhe Council 1 to appoint such a man before they grapfc •• tl the :j ealth. Officer such power as he d'e*. v sires. Without the CouuciLmaking sucli. (i provision it is complete noiußcnse to talk , i- of making hotelkeep^shave earth-closets. * i" If the Uouucii find ! sUch closets o their reach, let them adopt the' Auckland y plan. For some'■Abuses.!own in : iuck>' if laud! have small wooden' boxes, and I - 3, pay the night-soil mjn 6d per week for if, emptying, them, in the . k rent. Making the landlord?" pay the t- weekiy charge and'puttiugit,on the rent ie is better than leaving it to the tenant, y Tbiir boses could' be lined .with zinc,' with ' if four small sash-wheels 'at/the:' bottom. it he lighter they are made the' better, as - they are more easily lifted about.... ihe . it hotelkeepers had better keep their' eyes-; e upo.i the Health Officer and the Council, n s. guardians of the public interest I ), think you might treat the.n 10 a leading ? g article on the subject, fhis will be a >e matter of vital importance to Grrahamst. toA - n and rfhortland in tiie comingsumr iner. -I am, &c., A limPiriJK. is Grahanntown, Aug. 11, 1874.

DOUBLH BUUID^I|^BIS. THEspecial correspondent of i\\6 Standard at Paris, under date 24:.h April, has telev;r ipned the following:—There are at this moment lying at the morgue the bodies of \ r a young Knglish couple. They arrived in; 7 Paris ou Tuesday uight, took .up tlieir quarters at an hotel, and werejfouud dead iii 'their room the following'morning. l ; l'hcy hud;taken prussic acil,.' 'Themarks* of their linen had been oblit'erat d, their papers burned, Thefencu Jw/aroV" s -: gives the following particulars ;.of. the case:-"On Wednesday, at otie iu. the'"* forenoon, a gentleman and lady in deep mourning arrived at 'toe hotel fromEngland.' The gentleman seemed tabe.about 7 thirty, and wore a full light be|rd.- Ha was well dressed, and-appeared to belong ,' the upper tins* of society. The lady was not more, thin eighteen, ami was very s! . pretiy. Ihe hotel was full, and c.mple were consequently provided with/ a room on the f urth floor, the lady rennrkiug that they could change next day. •.t dinner ume they did not appear, ,/ which caused soine, surprise, and the next tiny nothing was se;'U of them, % at two o'clock the police were called aud the door of the room brokenopen.'.;; The strangers were then discovered half dressed and dead in each other's arms upou the bed, and beside them was an empty bottle, which had contained prussic acid. Another bottle filled with laudanum, was on a stool uear. The young man's face was terribly contorted; but that of ihe lady was calm and beautiful*;; .The police report states that'whereas'the- ■ woman had been dead ten hours, the body of the man was warm when found. Hence the conjecture that possioly Ul9 murder led to a remorseful suicide. Telegrams to the London police have not vet proluced any information. The .vmu-in had no weddiug-ring, but a ring .reversed to sunulite one. liventuallyft 1 ' ..he parties were identified by photographs ' - a< vlr Charles Wm Hall, of Bath, aud nis wife, who attempted to commit suicide at Ufracombe in July last, by taking laudanum. On that occasion ; .VTr and ' Mrs Hall escaped death, mainly in cou» sequence of their taking overdoses ot the poison. When brought up at the quarter sessions in Exeter, in October last, the male prisoner pleaded guilty, and the female prisoner not guilty, .aud as the counsel for the Crown declined to offer any evidence, Mrs Hall was discharged. I'he counsel for the husband stated that since his imprisonment-, his client had ■iji'en very penitent, and thankful that his iile was spared from his own rashness, •md ho added that ; 'r Hall, --en., a Bath tradesman, would f>r the future watch (Her nis s>u an I his wife, v merely nominal sentence was passed, and Hall.,;'' Mas h f.-w day 3 afterwards discharged from prison." ■"'■,'.■'■ ■ ■,

Mr Smih is bound to hare his joke.' His , wife walked nearly iu front of a railroad train . the other day, and he said- if she had gone a step fiiriher his children would have had a atep« mother, ', ' . Strange that game should be so dear when, theiafthe efforts of every sjjortauiau ave [ to'briagit dowu . -j . ■ ■ ' /