CHITCHAT.

Lake County Press, Issue 589, 25 January 1894, Page 3

CHITCHAT.

How tho cable interpreters mix things 1 According to one, the King of Italy contemplates abandoning the country, whileJiis Queen is always in in tears and passes whole days in prayer; and another has it this way i “ King Humbert is much upset over the flight of Princess Margherita. He is always in teark and prays the entire day.” A hotchpotch certainly.

And so the Borough Council have decided to refuse a renewal of the slaughtering license in the Borough of Arrowtown I

What is your opinion of the matter \ Well, I think it was wrong in tho first case to allow the slaughteryard to be erected in the borough. There you are wrong. In the first place the slaughteryard was not within the borough bounds. The large-minded people of the place, who always have an eye to grab, went in for an “ extension ” of the town, got it, and with it the slaughteryard. Well, you would not like a slaughteryard against your house. .No ; I should not; and that being so, I should not build my house near to an existing slaughteryard unless I wanted the smell.

What! Do you mean to say that the people erected their places round about the slaughteryard ? Yes ; they settled there like blowflies round a piece of meat. Well, under such circumstances I am now rather- inclined to think that Messrs Jenkins and Co. have a grievance.

I should say so. Particularly as the yard has been permitted to remain for so many years, during which time the proprietors have effected many improvements thereabout, involving considerable outlay. It has been there over 20 years. Still, with the houses there, the slaughteryard is out of place.

j Quite so ; but whose fault is it that the houses are where they are 1