CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 131, 8 March 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We de uot necessarily endorse tlu opmions expressed by our correspondents.]

To tho Editor of the Waikvto Times. Sir,— l wish to call attention through jour columns to the state of ihe two briil|os nearest Ohaupo on the Cambridge road. They have beon for soveral month am § exceedingly dangerous state, and to-day tho one neare3t OUtiupo became impassable. 'Die plank* are rotten and only laid do>vn — not oven a,batten across thorn to keep them steady ; and a large break is now in the bridge Should anyono attempt to cross in tho dark, then' vyll no doubt be a aerioiu a.ccidoij.t ; and jet the Bpard tako no btepa to provent this occurring They have been written and spoken to on the subject, but to no effect. Ts there no remedy for this disßracbful state of affairs? The rest of tho noad, ns far a* Mr Buttles farm from Cambridge, is formed, and vet this part is neglected. Tho most extraordinary part of the affair is that a,U the members of the Board but one reside at tho other end of 'Jio district. Thin makes it more curioin, as ono would think (hat their natural good feeling and seine of juptii'Q w.onjd, immediately prompt them to leave their part of tho road unfinished and proceed nt once to havo tho work executed which would most benefit their neighbours. Making, however, all due allowanco for tho ahg'it mistake above alluded to, I think it is high time that this Btatc of attturs should be changed. I am, sir, A R ITEPAVBK.

Effetive&ci^g S3 efiht. — The question— Dom your sherry effervesce? — may seem strange ; it is, however, one in which the consumer!! of tltaf wine, especially its cheaper kinds, arc niuo'i interested. In making nnal a \iic4 of wines wo (Food, Water, nnd Air) liuve frequently noticed, on uncorking tho bottlei, a very perceptible escape of gas,, followed by slight effervescence. The samo observation has been made by others, and it was only tho other day that wo received ft communication from a ine.licil man, stating that he had, noticed the fame ihmg, nnd a«kin<j us in conreqimuce lo test tho w mo. The cause of so siegular and unexpected a phenomenon it was not difUVuK to explain. Tlie«o wine* had evidently been recently tvetitod with sugar, which was in process of docoinno4itiou and conversion into carbonic acid and alcohol. ' Effervescing slierrics, therefore, it nrvy bo safely concluded, arc inapo up and adulterated articles. It hence bo'iovus the consumer to be on his guard, and s'-iould j ho detect in any wino, tho escape of gas, followed by effervescence, ho may safely return it to the wine merchants of whom it wai procured, accompanied by any uncomplinieutarv observations a3 to its quality ho may think fit to employ. Mr Voxel's paper — the Southern Cross — believes that tho time is approaching when a property an J inco«no lar urist he levied in Xcw Z.'iiliinJ. 1