Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-05-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DISPOSAL OF LONDON SEWAGE.  An entirely original proposal for the disposal ol the sewage of London has been put forward, says Engineering. This is to deliver it into the sea at Dungeness Point. There is no doubt that this locality excels all others within reach of the metropolis in its natural adaptation for the purpose. It is a flat desolate promontory of shingle jutting out of the Romney Marshes for five miles beyond the adjacent shore line, and terminates at a point where the water close to the shore is 90ft. deep at low tide. Here the stream of foul liquid could be discharged all through the 21 hours many feet below the surface of the swift channel current, and under favourable conditions would never be seen again. With the exception of the men employed on coastguard service at the lighthouse and at the signal station, the district is uninhabited, the nearest villages being Lydd and New Romney, distant from the Point 4 and 51 miles respectively. Hastings and Folkestone are 18 and 15 miles distant respectively as the crow flies, 20 and 18 miles respectively by the shore lines. The sewage would need to be conveyed 56 miles from Crossness, by an aqueduct running almost due south-east. The northern sewage would be brought under the Thames by a tunnel, and joining that of the south side, would flow across the Erith Marshes to Abbeywood, where it would be pumped to a height of 40! t. It would then pass between Crayford and Dartford to a point about two miles west of Maidstone ; thence by Headeorn, Tenterden, and Apple. don to Lydd and Dungeness Point. The cost of the undertaking is estimated by its authors, in chiding all expenses and charges of every kind, at £5,750,000, to which must be added £30,000 a year for pumping. The interest on the capital sum at 3 per cent. would be £172,500 per year, and the total annual expenses, apart from a sinking fund, £202,500. This is about equal to the smallest estimate for the annual expense of the chemical treatment now being experimentally carried out. When the time comes that it is demonstrated that the London sewage must be delivered into the sea, the plan will deserve very serious consideration. It will provide a final and complete solution to the pro. blem, and in this respect will have a great advantage over the proposed aqueduct to Foulness Point. No one can say definitely that the discharge of immense quantities of sewage into the sluggish waters of the Essex coast would not cause very considerable nuisance.  At Glasgow Circuit Court Lord M`Laren has sentenced John Findlay to be executed on the 29th inst. for murdering Hugh Dempsie by stabbing him with a knife on the 18th of March. The prisoner is 21 years old. Three labourers, between the ages of 17 and 19, have been sentenced at Bishop Stortford Policecourt to seven days' hard labour each, without the option of a fine, for using improper language in ths streets.  Mr. Frank Joyce, of Loughrea, accidentally met his death the other evening. A side-car on which he was driving came into contact with a restive horse belonging to Captain Macmahon, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, upsetting the car. Mr. Joyce received a serious wound on the head, and expired soon afterwards. Mr. Joyce succeeded the late Mr. Blake as agent for the Marquis of Clannearde, which post he held during the first Woodford evictions. He afterwards resigned through a difference with Lord Clanricarde, and brought an action against the Marquis for libel. A railway passenger, wno arrtvea or ne German frontier the other morning blew cut his brains with a revolver when the German ificials refused to permit him to continue his journey to Alsace with. out being Provided with  'gee