Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3194, 2 May 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

SmelliMous Ma&terton. (To the Editor) :. SiR.--There is a garden in Masterton situated on the eaßlern front of the Mayor'ii residence, and cultivated by certain gentlemen from the Flowery Land. As I am . "located in the vicinity,"! desire to call attention to tbe disgusting odours, which nightly rise-from defunct Chinamen, dirty drains, rotting manure heaps, "welly nice callota and good cabbagecs." Towards sundown, residents in the neighborhood grope in their pockets for stray half-crowns, and then rush frantically to the nearest ohemhta for a bottle of ''water from famous far Cologne." The reason that this nuisanco is allowed to exist in Masterton is apparent,;, Our civic fathers are'wildly envious of the wide-spread reputation Wellington haß achieved for the pungency and variety of its odours, and are bent on beating it in its own sphere, Wellington has only gained its present fame for flavours by patient and persistent negligence extending over many years, and it is a rather contemptible action on the part of Mastei'ton to attempt to outbid another city in this underhand manner. .In my opinion Masterton should either retire from the contest and disband it smells, or huiid an additional fever ward to the hospital, for the free treatment of persons down with typhoid fever. While "Pooh, Bab " is agitating far a reduction of the water supply, I think he might also, with advantage, agitate on the subject of "Chinese odours." lam, J . ' ■ . Anti-typhus.