LIVING IN A STABLE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5559, 29 July 1886, Page 3

LIVING IN A STABLE.

[TO THE EDITOR.] Sir,— Now that Brunnerton has grown to be a place of such importance, the wonder of many is that Government do not Bee their way to provide a suitable building for a courthouse, and police station as well. At present we have two police constables living amcngst us, but I must admit that their quarters are as difficult to find for a stranger looking for the police as it is difficult for the ratepayers to understand what the Government mean by housing their officers as is done here. The officer in charge lives In a private cottage, and the subordinate has got to submit aa any good Christian ought to do or to live In a stable. Whether it is extreme piety on the part of Constable Cameron, or obeying orders, I am not in a position to state ; but the- fact remains that a police constable is at present living in a stable belonging to the railwy department at Brunnerton. I think in a district where there are four coal mines at work the stability of the place cannot be questioned, and such tinkering with the interest of an important district by the Government is anything but satisfactory. — I am, &c, Coal Miner. Brunnerton, July 28, 1886.

We are sorry to learn, says an American paper, that a German chemist has succeeded in making first-rate brandy out of sawdust. We are a friend of the temperance movement, and we want it to succeed, but what chance will it have when a man can take a rip saw . and go out and get drunk with a fence rail ? What is the use of the Prohibitory Liquor Law if a man is able to make brandy smashes out of the shingles of his roof, or if he can geb delirium tremens by drinking the legs of his kitchen chairs ? You may shut an inebriate out of a gin-Bhop, and keep him away from taverns, but if he can become uproarious on boiled sawdust and desiccated window-sills, any effort at reform must necessarily be a failure. UsThere are, it is said, no less than 18,000 female students in the colleges of the United States. The total of British capital in foreign loans and railways is estimated to be 1058 millions sterling.

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