THE FIRR BRIGADE AND THE LATE FIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 301, 6 December 1862, Page 5

THE FIRR BRIGADE AND THE LATE FIRE.

(To the Editor of the Daily Times.)

Srn*rTrlT^urt^y6u''wilJ.dlow a poor man to tell his" grievance. "At the'late fire in "Dunedin^ I got considerably hurt and had to go to the Hospital; I sent a-letter to the captain of,the.';Firs Brigade, telling him I was a very poor man,. and asking him for some assistance. They did vote me £f,but although I applied to the captain for the money, he refused^to give it to me, in consequeace he said of ihy bad behaviour at the Hospital.- I did not behave badly at; the Hospital, and I should:*ot have been in the Hospital at all if it had hot been fcr.the fire j and X think it.very hard that I should be deprived* of the Brigade's liberality. , I should not have troubled you, Sir. but I am a poor man, and I trust you will give me a little assistancein the matter. . y. ;.'.'; -

Yours obediently, : ,;: Joiin Rice,

WATER ! WATER !! WATERJJ! ( To the Editor of the Daily Times.)

.7 Sir,--In all coramonities there are croakers an^ dog-in-the-mang^r, kind ;ofi bodies, : who grumbls equally at fortune andT misortune: . satisfied with nothing, but their own croak, croak.- croak ; .who would, if possihle, placie obstructions in the highway of progress to the hinderance ahdinjury of their fe'l--low-cwatures, because their- own degenerate arid little minds will not suffer them to go along with others in the inarch of improvement. I Such an one is your illogical and ungrammatical correspondent,; -"H. E.," who, iv your issue- of to-day, attempts to ridicule the advantages which the inhabir tants of this overgrown town will derive from an abundant supply of pure water. It is evident he does not understand the- subject he has ventured to discuss, nor has he brains enough to explain that, he wishes to throw discredit on. the undertaking, i .It was clearly his desire to prove, something hypothetically, or otherwise, hut I fail to discover in his letter. any intelligible statement, or point, upon which a discussion'could arise. ; You may depend on it, Sir, " the man's mad," for he doesn't like water. I am, &c, . j''" —: — -" ■ ■- -. ■'-: -:■'. VERITAS^ '■' I Dnnedin, sth December, 1862.