xc. DISCUSSION. 
however, was—like many other men—thirty years ahead 
of Mr. Moriarty, and the truth of all his disinterested repre- 
sentations as to the advantages to Sydney of a high pres- 
sure supply by gravitation is now being realised. Mr. 
Clarke’s estimate (in his report) of the amount of water 
which would require to be pumped above Crown Street, 
was absurdly small evenat the time it was made, but perhaps 
the mistake was quite excusable in a stranger, whom there 
was no necessity to send for. Mr. Keele has since done 
yeoman’s work for the community in pointing out where 
and how water in the future can be found and impounded 
at high levels, thus not only doing away with the expense 
of pumping it up again—after as now, allowing it to fall 
hundreds of feet to Crown Street level—but also securing 
supplementary channels of supply to reduce the risk of a 
water famine through accidents. It is very nice to read 
Mr. Keele’s championship of his old chief Mr. HE. O. 
Moriarty in connection with the controversies which he 
had with Mr. Gipps and other rivals; nothing else should 
be possible under the circumstances, and on the principle 
of De mortuis nil nisi bonum, it will not be attempted now 
to traverse the pros and cons of the rival proposals to which 
Mr. Keele refers, or dig up the controversies and paper 
warfare which extended over years in connection with 
the Sydney water supply; but as a matter of strict historical 
accuracy, it should be remembered that while Mr. Moriarty 
entered the Government service with a college education, 
it was only as an assistant surveyor, not as an engineer at 
all, and that if the Government thrust great engineering 
responsibilities upon him which thus brought him into con- 
stant conflict with public opinion through the scrutiny his 
proposals received, he was more to be pitied than blamed. 
Peace to his ashes. He (Mr. Selfe) had been brought very 
much into contact with Mr. Moriarty half a century ago 
and afterwards, and had nothing but kindly feelings for him 
