Borough Water Supply.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 309, 5 November 1910, Page 3

Borough Water Supply.

To the Editor. Sir, —Mr Pino ha 3 again shifted his ground re artesian water power. To follow him further in a hydraulic or hydrostatic sense would be waste of time and space. A visit to the scene of the Council's proposed operations is strongly recommended. Armed with St. Paul's prescription, given to an illustrious but dyspeptic namesake, Mr Pine will find the change of venue to Waiteti and its wholesome diluent a capital antidote to any forebodings regarding a gravitation scheme A legal maxim, apparently endorsed by my friend, advises disparagement if the cause be weak. Peace must therefore be made with those for whom so much solicitude has been epxresaed. I must endeavour to save my Donellian Bacon: not, however, as a "professed" etymologist. In Shakespeare's time, the "groundlings" occupied the pit or fore-ground of the travelling theatre. Evolution has transformed them into gods. Metaphorically, they are the unheeding and unlearned whom the skilful actor causes to be blinded, in their hilarity, by the dust raised at his more or less entertaining talk. The "judicious" are those, says Shakespeare, "whose censure must outweigh a whole theatre of others." —I am, etc., E. H, HARDY,