Original Correspondence.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1860, 25 April 1863, Page 3

Original Correspondence.

Our columns beiig impartially open, we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. No notice can to taken of anonymous communications. Correspondents nust therefore furnish their name and address, not necasarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. To the Editv of the Wellington Independent. Snt,— Everythhg around us augurs progress. Tho Customs, the Whutf, and the Post Office arrangements all show we are improving, and while that is the cas» vr» ought to be satisled; yet we may still improve, and I am. Bure the Post Offlie authorities will excuse me for callingattention to the Lttevß on the fly pane. They ought to bo> on the fixed ones because the fly pane being thrown back on the delivery, to one can see the alphabetical arrangement, and that caises a pressure which would be avoided were they to be ssen from the outside. There is also one other small znatta-. I do not know whether the Poßtin aster here has any power to make arrangements for tha delivery of lettea ; at the same time, if he has the power, I think it wouldaoon pay for itself if persons poiting their letters at either end could be certain of their delivery within a given Hme after posting (say three or four hours). Again, as I am on the improvement question, I am glad to see the sewers laid down along the front of the new Court House and the Mechanics 1 Institute, and would beg to suggest to Provincial authorities the necessity of paving the channel on the outside of the path and above the said sowers with large stones, the said channel to be" about two feet wide, as it vould enable the water to run off more freely, and could be tasily cleansed, and would also bustain the weight of any cart that might draw up alongside the curb. It would tlso tend to preserve the width of the pathway; and, while lam thus scribbling, I may call the attention of our aembers of the Provincial Council to the necessity of enacting a law to the effect that all new erections should have a drain, of a dimension to be decided on by the Provincial Council, to pass into the main drain, wheresoever it should pass along the front of Bmch new erections. UxitITAUUN ... .» :

Per favor of the ■Wklmikjtoh' Indefexdeot. — Twittem, Eaq Sir, — I presume, from your letter in the Independent, of the 14th ApriL that you arc the head of a family, and that having gone into figures, you find that you are paying flvo shillings per week move for your bread than you ought to do, considering the price of flour. Or to quote from your letter that you are paying £13 per annum more than you ought, (which sum would pay your butcher for three months, a serious item, I may add a, loeiry serious item). The rule of three puzzles me, but I can manage a sum in multiplication, 4 times 13 are £52 ; or, one pound per week for meat How many in family are you Sir, you consume 24 loaves per week, so I will put you down as five, viz : — Mrs T., yourself, two little T.'a, and a servant, that' will give you a pound of meat each per day; well I mußt say that your family are not vegetarians. I remember that in the year 1848, flour was much the same price as it is now, the 2H) loaf waa then sold at 4d ; but since then we have mode rapid strides in civilization, people in those early days, were satisfied to use bread made by hand, and have it brought to thoir doors in wheelbarrows. Our bread is now made by machinery, which a whole host of M.8.0. S.s certify is much more wholesome, &0., than bread made in the old fashioned way ; and it is now brought to our doors in carts ; and this little item is also to be taken into account, that since the introduction of steam many more people migrate than they used to do, in Bearch of fresh fields and pastures new, and many of them either forget or neglect to pay their bakers bills. Now Sir, ifyou take three tunes three into your consideration. Ist The cost of machinery. 2nd. Cost of carts, harness, and fodder for the horses. 3rd. Bad debts, you may arrive at the following conclusions, that the bakers are patriotic in introducing machinery for the purpose of mannfacturiug pure and wholesome bread, that they are humane in having carts to deliver the bread, instead of our fellow creatures trudging about with wheelbarrows, (and remember whiter is coming on), and also that the bakers are good natured in giving credit to the public, and that If sums of tbe public betray tKttt trust ; tHo public that pays must make it up by a small toll, so that the good natured bakers may not be sufferers. Now Sir, do you think that bread can be sold for less than 5d the 21b loaf. Z remain your'a, &c ADOuraua Smith. N.B.— J. Brown says the 20) loaf is often short weight' why does he not bring the matter under the notice of the Inspector of "Weights. Wellington, April 22nd. , . ■