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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1054, 27 March 1879, Page 3

Welmngton is not a very easy place for a stranger to find his way about in, for when he is once off ' the Beach,' he readily loses himself among the narrow lanes, alleys, and slums into which the newer parts of the town have been cut up by speculators, and which will one day render the city all but uninhabitable. We heard of a plan of describing the whereabouts of a particular house, though, the other day, which is rather good. A visitor from abroad, passing through the Empire City, asked a person whom he met in the street where a wellknown resident lived. The answer he received was something like this :—' Go on straight till you come to the next stink but one. Then turn to the left, and keep on that side of the road 17 stinks, when you will find another turning. Cross over there, and your friend's house is just beyond the eighth stink on the right-hand side. It has an open drain and a dead dog in front of it. You can't miss it. The slops of the whole street meet just there.' The visitor sent h.is o.ard by post, and got on hoard his steamer again, as fast an possible.—' Timaru Herald.'