CHRISTCHURCH.

Press, Volume III, Issue 150, 25 April 1863, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

Tho Timaru mail, with a four-in-hand team, arrived in town this afternoon about half-past four o'clock, and after depositing tho whole of tho passengers, and delivering tho mail, was returning to the stables at a slashing paco, when the horses appear to hare got the mastery of the driver, Mr. Manning, and bolted off tho road near the Royal Hotel, broke the waggon, and threw Mr. Manning out, but wo are happy to etato that, although considerably hurt, he has sustained no serioue injury. Inspectob of Nuisances.—The great Napoleon used to say that if he had no other mode of selecting an applicant for an oflico, he always chose tho man with the largest nose. How many Canterbury men, had they lived in tho days of tho Empire, would have been on tho road to glory. It appears that no loss than thirty-one candidates appeared at the City Council on last Monday, all eager to obtain the office of Inspector of Nuisances. "What a great pity that the Councd should have been compelled to select one. Why not have a whole pack ? Only fancy fifteen couples of a winter's morning with a lightfrost breaking to the warmth of day, running down a strong scented nuisance, with the City Council forming a well '" mounted field in at the death. There is some fun v after all to be got even out of Lord Mayor and Coqjoration. Itis curious to moraliso on tho disclosures which these public demands occasion. Now wo should have thought that a very high salary would liavo been necessary to have tempted any man to live in the perpetual aroma of smells. Not at all- , There are children who like senna, others who cry for castor oil. Similarly Providence has created a ' class of human beings who share with rats the predilection for living and working in sowers. It is a wouderful dispensation of Providence. There is no want, but there is a provision fer satisfying it. So here—no sooner is there a need of a man who shall live by the detection of stinks than thirty-one competitors start into life, not one of whom we should have suspected of such an idioayncraey. Why there has not been such competition for any public office, not even for the Superintendency, since Canterbury was a civilized country. Ono is elinost led to tliink that there must be a g-fecret sect of smell-finders, like the Thugs of India, and moving amongst us, of whom none of r us ever heard. A set of privy councillors whose I genius lias hitherto bin concealed under a I napkin.