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There are also wells and usual tanks. The wells are liable 

 to pollution from adjoinino' cesspits, and are looked upon as 

 poisonous. The water in the race is good. It would be 

 desirable to institute a proper system of water supply, but the 

 nearest supply has been monopolised by a mining- company, 

 and the water is polluted." Population, 1 420. Mining centre. 

 (Some improvement is evidently needed here.) 



The foregoing cases are only a few out of a large number 

 that have come under observation. It would appear that 

 there is an abundance of water to be had if people would 

 only go the right way to work to procure it. 



Where a water supply is deficient cleanhness cannot be 

 maintained, and misery must surely be the result. We 

 cannot all be rich, but we can all be clean. 



Any technical details of how a supply of water should be 

 brought into a town are omitted. Circumstances vary in 

 nearly every instance, and no fixed rules can be laid down. 

 The mode of raising water, either by mechanical aid or the 

 natural power in the flowing stream itself, and its subsequent 

 distribution, are matters left for the engineer. 



It should be our common aim in life to assist each other in 

 every practical manner, both for the good of ourselves and 

 that of our neighbour, and the subject which has been treated 

 in this paper is one in which there still remains a large scope 

 for united action. 



2.— BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE: A DEFINI- 

 TION AND A INDICATION. 



By ALAN C. WALKER, A.R.I.B.A. 



The annual deliberations of this valuable Association have 

 already demonstrated their worth and justified their observance 

 by the splendid opportunities which are thus offered to the 

 scientific and artistic for inter-communication, and as affording 

 an admirable means of translation to the average public of 

 the best fruits of the long and Aveary study of those Avho are 

 energetically devoting their hves to the development of 

 mental culture. And it is my purpose, with your kind 

 permission, while availing myself of such advantages, to 

 briefly attempt a definition of Building and a partial vindica- 

 tion of Architecture, 



In these modern times the necessity for such a definition 



