MUD OH!

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4169, 29 June 1875, Page 3

MUD OH!

TO THK KIMTOH. Sin—l am but a sojourner in Dunedin, and anxious to get away alive, and therefore I write to you in order to avert an expectant doom if I continue to move along your pathways. May I ask if there is such a thing as an Inspector, and is it his duty to see that the paths are not encrusted witlHnud to such an extent as not only .seriously to inconvenience, but also dangerously to jeopardise those who do not visit the skating rinks, or have forgotten the winter feats of their youth ? This morning I was out betimes, and found one person lavishly alive to his duty. The hose was turned on, and the mud turned off, but the next step brought me to one who cared little for the public convenience or safety. The town of Gloucester, in England, is, or was, a model of clta'ilinees. The Police are on the alei-t, and if there is an accumulation of filth before any door at « a.m., the inmates know more about it than they like. Why should it not be so here? The lamps are so economically lighted, and on such distant terms with each other, that a person moving along at night ! comes to trouble : indeed, I saw a lady at the I corner i-f one of the streets almost swimming through the liquid mud, and almost tripped tip jby those gratings which are placed at. certain points to uphold those who can't swim. Many ■ will bless you if you find it in your heart to take tip the cudgels on behalf of suffering humanity, and my little Jemmy in particular, who got well trounced for dropping his prayer-book in very adhesive mud. Patkkfamimas.