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9
The Canal Nuisance.
Attempts to secure a proper cleansing of the Basin
were renewed this year. Several letters were written
to the Company asking them to embrace the opportunity
of effectually cleansing the Canal Basin during
the cool weather. On the 12th of April, the water
was, as usual, ordered to be let out of the Canal Basin
for the cleansing according to the promise made to the
Police Magistrate at the hearing of the case in 1872.
I am sorry to say, that from want of previous
arrangements on a scale of sufficient magnitude, a
large portion of the mud forming the bed of the Basin
was again left untouched. On'Monday, April 14th, the
Sanitary Committee personally visited the Basin to
ascertain what steps were actually taken, when it was
computed that 39 boats only were available for the
removal of the mud. The staff of men employed was
also too small. A notice was therefore served upon
the Company, under the Nuisances Removal Acts, to
effectually cleanse the bed of the Basin, and in default
of so doing forthwith, a summons was granted on the
15tli, the hearing being adjourned from the 22nd to
the 29 th, at the request of the Canal Company. The
case was argued at great length before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
and after many formal objections taken by their
Counsel, as to the form of procedure, all of which had
been complied with, the Vestry gained a conviction
against the Company, an order being made that the
Company should cleanse the Basin to the satisfaction
of the Vestryi weather permitting. The Counsel for
B