CLYDE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 423, 6 January 1875, Page 3

CLYDE.

{From our own Correspondent.) We are now just about getting to the end of our festivities. What with Christmas and Caledonian sports, concerts &c, we have had a fair round of amusements. Mr. and Mrs. St. Vincent gave thesr entertainment to a good and appreciative audience. They intend giving one night's performance on their return, and will no doubt get a good house, they being considerably above the average of caterers for the amusement of the public. Our brass band have had their hands full, and great credit is due to them for their liberality and perseverance in their endeavours to promote sociality and amusement by their playing at the sports, the concert in 'aid of the funds of the school, and to wind up the old year they gave the votaries of Terpsichore a chance of indulging on the light fantastic in the Town Hall at the witching hour of 12. Three cheers were given them- Mr. Nettlef old, on behalf of Mr. Wilde the conductor and the band, returned thanks in a short but appropriate speech. He wound up his remarks by saying they all had a desire to promote rational amusement, and would at all times do their utmost. They were glad to know their endeavours had been appreciated. This .being New Year's Day, and the day for holding the Alexandra Baces, all the business places were' closed, and a goodly muster wended their way thither. A short time since Dr. Thompson sent in a report to the Town Council on the Banitary state of the town* in which he pointed out certain nuisances^ and recommended their removal. The report was read at a meeting of the Council some time since, but it appears little or no action is being laken in the matter. Cromwell has got a most unenviable notoriety and should be a warning to Clyde. The Council should use their utmost* to avert such a thing as a fever breaking out amongst us. Why this delay ? There still remains the fever-breeding heaps, as a monument of lethargy on the part of the Council, Where is the Inspector of Nuisances that such fostering sources of death-dealing poison should for one day be allowed to exist in the very centre .of our population ? Surely it is not necessary that before any action is taken, it requires a Mayor or Councillor to be carried by - typhoid or other fatal disease ! Now that the holidays are over 'and the ■miners returning to work with a plentiful supply of wate/, they will shortly be able to make up for any little excesses indulged in during the' festive season. ,