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protection from the ravages of dynamite — but I say a 

 greater than Dynamite is here, capable of slaying his 

 tens of thousands. The dying fish tell an unmistakable 

 tale. They are the straws that point the direction to which 

 the sanitary stream is flowing. Our hearts should leap to 

 action when we think of what will be our reward ! Not 

 that of silver and gold, but the far higher one of having 

 been the means of saving countless lives, which otherwise 

 would have been sacrificed to a preventible cause — a want 

 of sanitary reform. 



Don't let us delay, then ! Let us imagine we hear the 

 Poet Laureate's beautiful words, warning us — 



"... They die in yon rich sky, 

 They faint on hill, on field, or river ; 

 Our echoes roll from soul to soul, 

 And grow for ever and for ever. 

 Blow, bugle blow, set the wild echoes flying. 

 And answer, echoes answer — dying, dying, dying." 



DISCUSSION. 



The Rev. J. McAlister said there were three questions 

 brought prominently forward in this paper ; first, as to the 

 supply of food ; secondly, whether the health of the people 

 living on the banks of rivers into which sewage was 

 allowed to flow was affected by it, and lastly and 

 most important of all, could these evils be remedied ? 

 Firstly, there could be no doubt the fish was provided 

 by Providence in our rivers, and was there ready for 

 capture, provided we did not interfere with them by the 

 introductiorj of sewage and other poisonous matter. As 

 to their being injured by sewage there could also be no 

 doubt. He had been a witness before the Royal Commis- 



