This means that drovers who are taking cattle to Burnside for sale must drive through Dunedin and Caversham before 8 o'clock in the morning, and if they have to drive cattle back to the Peninsula they must wait until 10 o'clock at night.
Deputations intend to wait upon the two councils to request that permission be given to drive stock through the streets on market days.
Sir,-I notice in the papers that it is the intention of the (Acclimatisation) society to erect extra weirs on the Leith.
Before this is done I think that it is the duty of the City Council to make arrangements with the society that provision be made, and properly carried out, so that the weirs cause no offence to the public.
A few months ago the weirs erected on the Leith between St David and Union streets were a positive abomination, and the cause of much complaint.
During the warm weather the odour arising from the Leith in this neighbourhood was extremely sultry.
Unfortunately residents on the banks of the stream are allowed to use the Leith as a refuse depot, and the weirs cause an accumulation of refuse and slime, flavoured frequently by the remains of sundry cats and dogs, whose corpses are prevented from going down to the bay to feed the fish in the harbour.
The latest accumulation contained several very large trout which had died after the recent spawning operations.
The trout recently put into Lake Logan should not be short of food, as several fine specimens of the feline and canine tribes are already deposited there, waiting to be devoured.
It is high time that the City Council created a bylaw whereby the dwellers on the Leith and Lake Logan were made responsible for all filthy deposits which may exist on the banks or in the water opposite to or bordering on their respective premises.
I am etc.,Mixed Ration.
