THE NEW INDUSTRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 5 December 1872, Page 7

THE NEW INDUSTRY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— -Your Clyde correspondent is evf- ) dently using your columns as a means of introducing a new branch of business without the cost of advertising. I refer to the article on how old and invaluable surplus stock may be made to command a sale. The abrupt termination to the story of Charley induces me to think that there is a league between this horse decorator, painter, or renovator, or any other name your correspondent may chose to give him. lat least do not pretend to tind a name for him ; I only meant to say that they seem to be working into each other's hands in the business. The account he gives of how Charley, in his natural state, coold not be disposed of even at a very low figure, but when he was operated upon he was sold without any trouble at an advauced price, evidently shows that he meant it for a cheap puff. He leaves him, then, pack-loaded on his way to th« Nevis ; but let us follow Charley a little further, and I believe the truth is that the Carrick Ranges, and not the Nevis, was his destination. When there, either from a sense of seeing himself gradually assuming his for mar dilapidated looks, or the ridicule he was subject to from others of his kind, appearing among them under false colors, so preyed on his mind that, to finish an existence which was becoming unbearable, he threw himself headlong into a hole, and perished. With the fate of poor Charley before their eyes, I would recommend your correspondent and the ratepayers of Clyde to leave animals, both lower and higher, in the shape and sphere for which nature fitted them, or a like result may be anticipated, for it is not every animal, even of the higher class, that is fitted for being a correspondent or a councillor. — t am, &c, Anti-Humbos