WASTE OF WATER. TO THB EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1908, Page 2

WASTE OF WATER. TO THB EDITOR.

Sir, — Re the shortage of water," I would like to point out that the city authorities themselves are great sinners. On" my journey to and tram the city I daily pass two horse troughs — one alongside the City Hotel and the other between the power-house and Cubastreet extension, both of which, through defective valve gear, are leaking badly, the latter especially so. Would it not bo better for 'the civic authorities to make- sure UieiP own houso is well glazed before starting to throw stones? —Yours, etc., AQJJARIOUS. Wellington. 14th February, 1908.

Tho Tinwald and Flemington Presbyterian congregation, in the provincial district of Canterbury, is about to invito the Rev. J. J. Brown, at present in charge of tho -Presbyterian Church at Grey town, Wairarapa, to become 'their ministor. The butter market is in an excited state (says the latest isruo of the Farmers' Union Advocate), and phenomenal prices have baen cabled from Home. Those firms .who gay« tho highest cash price must bo making an excellent profit, and the companies who backed their opinions and* shipped are getting such prices as will compensate the dairyman for the extreme falling-off in his yield. It is not all good. These high prices will draw to the London market alarpo quantity of inferior butter, and down will go the price. Still, it is gratifying that our butter is getting alongside Danish in the estimation of iho public, and is classed with it on the London market. There is_ no reason why it should not remain so if companies only contrive to turn it out with the care which they havo hitherto done. Success often leads to carelessness, ailc? somo of tho butter shipped has been very unsatisfactory—some as ,low as 86| por cent, has gone on to the market, and if this continues the buyers will no doubt protect themselves and grade their prices according to . tho percentage the butter receives in the grading stores. Somo time ago a strange case of telepathy was reported' from Bari, in Apulia, which rogion socms to bo rich in people gifted with second fi-jht. Another strange oaso has just, oocunod at Andria, near Biiri, whore a woman was murdered by her lover. Her mother, lning in a distant suburb, at tho fame monipnt jumped from her bed, and rushed to the fcaloony, crying, "Help! Murder! My daughter 15 being; murdered.'-