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CORRESPONDENCE. 
.* 1 he Editor does not hold himself responsible for statements of fads or 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles bearing the signature 
of their respective authors. s 
HOW NOT TO DO IT. 
Ii is commonly supposed that the Local Government Board is 
constantly exeiting pressure in favour of sanitary improvements 
whilst local authorities are recalcitrant, and seek every expe- 
dient to delay, it they cannot prevent, the needful reforms. As 
a striking instance to the contrary I may point to Hendon. The 
Local Board there resolved upon a scheme for treating their 
sewage, in October last, and made application to the Local 
Government Board for power to borrow a sum of money for the 
undertaking. Before this could be granted a certain Inspector 
of the Board had to come to Hendon to hold an official inquiry 
He happened, however, to be taken ill early in November, and 
Hendon has still to wait for his recovery before an additional 
step can be taken. The Board has other Inspectors equally 
competent to hold the inquiry ; but no 1 No one else may be 
entrusted with the affair. Surely Rivers’ Pollution Bills are 
utter farces if delays are permitted on such frivolous pretexts. 
A Ratepayer. 
PSYCHOGRAPHY. 
Your contributor, “ R. M. N.,” would have rendered a great 
service to the perplexed many if he could have shown how the 
motive power used in Psychography, and other Spiritualistic 
manifestations, is procured. We “ so-called scientific men ” 
who, in a recent article in “ Light,” are likened to “ very clever 
members of the canine race,” have been under the conviction 
