Letters to the Editor

Sir, - I am very glad to see that Dr PEARSON, the medical officer of health, has reported the bone mill at the east end of the town to be a nuisance, and that the Trustees have ordered steps to be taken for its abatement or suppression. The Brow-top, which used to be one of the most enjoyable promenades in the county, and which was made a short time ago by our own amateur navvies, had been rendered useless by this bone mill. Its sickening effluvia has superseded the invigorating sea breezes, and the delightful views of magnificent sunsets and mountains and sea can no longer be enjoyed by old or young as before. What was once a crowded promenade is now as deserted as a ruined city. But there are other nuisances. I live in High-street, and every Thursday night a certain Authority sends its carriage round the streets, which stops outside the front of my house, while the "coachman" indulges in an animated conversation with the domestics of the opposite houses and the neighbouring cottages for eight or ten minutes. The result is that my house is filled with an effluvia that is abominable, disgusting, and sickening, and seeing that it arises from decaying and putrid animal matter, must be injurious to the health of my young family. Why should any Authority be allowed to do this to me with impunity, while, at the same time, it claims the right to suppress a far less nuisance committed by others? Surely those that live in glass houses should not throw stones. The Authority that can nightly swallow the camel nuisance of its perambulation carriage need scarcely strain at the gnat of a nuisance of a bone mill.

I shall look forward with interest to the cross-examination of the "Authority" if it should ever dare to take the case to a court of law. – Yours truly, A.B.