Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3000, 11 September 1888, Page 2

Correspondence.

flog, Dog. or-Devil-(At tht fish of distillling the last inmnti of tk expiring Municipal donky we must nphj to a letter which appeal 8 ahve tk signature of E. E. Ghamkihin, in the columns of our local contemporaig.' Vide Star, September 1,) TO TIIE EDITOR* _ Sir—The Municipal donkey still lives, Now we have two animals, the hog and the donkoy.; of the two I should say the donkey }i the most useful, whilst living the hog is'a great nuisance to everybody; unless you shut him up he will go rooting about and putting his nose everywhere where he should not ';. he will wallow'ln all the mud lie can find, go rooting in gutters, stirring .up rubbish and filth, in fact he is'no good until he has been hung and smoked. The donkey is another sort of animal; he doea not have to die to bo useful, but often lives a long and useful life. Now sir, your local contemporary says if Cr Chamberlain will look up the record of the Council; he will find that the Borough Council passed a resolution in favor of dividing 4 the Borough and all Mr Eenall did was to assist the Council. Now, sir„do you believe this ?. Mr Kenall .assisting thoCounoil! No; sir, it was nothing of the sort. The question of dividing the Borough into Wards had been talked about by: the Counoil—it was to diuide it into three Wards... I was always against dividing it in any shape, but if it was to be : divided, I would rather see three Wards instead of four. MrEonallgot the petition to divide it into four Wards, and had it taken round for signatures. .; He then sent it in without the Counoil having anything to do nith it whatever. The Council got up another petition praying to have it divided into three Wards; but it was too .late: Mr Eenall's. petition was in before ours, and the .Borough was divided into four quarters—a most useless division—every Wardrunning into the centre of the- Borough. What has it done ? It has increased the working expenses of the Borough, and help to swallow up the ratepayer's money. Now, sir, who got the Wards abolished ? It was. the present Council; Does, your contemporary credit the Counoil for it. No! He says that the people being tired of the Councillors have abolished the Wards. He infers by this,' that {he burgesses will put a new Council in, We shall seel Your local contemporary says he was always in favor of gas and is proud of it, Well, sir, why is he always haggling, at the Councillors. He says if the gas is not 'reproductive it is the fault of suoh representatives as Cr E. E, Chamberlain, who don't use gas, don't want it. Now, sir, if your contemporary would confine himself to the truth he would not have made that assertion, because Cr Chamberlain does use gas in the firm of Chamberlain Bros,, but as to not wanting it I never did want it from the Borough. I was in favor of a Company erecting gas works, audit is my opinion still that it should have been left to a company. Now, sir, the gas loan was carried by. residents in Jlasterton, and notjby outside settlers on the outskirts' ; of the Borough, Sir. your "contemporary, wants cheap gas and other people to pay for it.... The Council have laid mains andlowerod the price of.gas, what more.could they 'do? 'Must they; lower the price of gas-so ■ that it will hardly pay working expenses, and then have apermanent gas rate ? lam,&c„' ■•'

E. E, Chamberlain, Weeds on Gravel Paths. ' 10 THE EDITOR, Sir—l noticed in your issue of last Saturday a letter signed "Pahiatuan" complaining of the trouble of above. As for blue stone I can recommond it for blight or. fruit trees, but killing weeds I am afraid it would prove ineoective. Arsenic, if used in the following way, the trouble which your correspondent complains of will be entirely at an end: —" Boil one pound of arsenic in four gallons of water, and pour on the weeds complained ot, either hot or cold. Thus being dissolved/it will soak into the soil and will not be at all dangerous. I would also recommend coal tar as another which will doubtless prove] equally as good as the above mentioned remedy if applied with a brush, I am, &01, Lovee of Clean Paths.