NUISANCES.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 552, 17 October 1871, Page 2

NUISANCES.

Ch3'ATS arb, doubtless, useful animals wliea kept in their proper place and not allowed to bark tbe trees of the neighbours of the owners, or suffered to invade greengrocers' shops. They are peculiarly difficult to train up in the way they should go, and to be taught the paths of rectitude. For this reason there are certain stringent by-laws in the Municipal Corporation Act which provide that they should not be allowed to stroll about a'j large, or even tethered in a public place. For the infringement of these rules considerable amounts of penalty may be enforced, and scarcely a day" passes on which one or more persons are not fined. The daily papers publish accounts of these transactions, aud yet people go on in the same manner, and risk tho chance of losing a considerable amount for the sake of a mischievous beast of less than half the value. Ono would think that the inhabitants of this city were not of the newspaper reading class. , But there is another nuisance of a somewhat similar character, and even a greater abomination than that of goats and straggling cows and horses ; and for its prevention or cure our legislation have omitted to provide. But it is not yet too late, and wo trust that our Council will see tho expedience of enacting a by-law for the proper restraint of domestic fowls, or what would be far better, their absolute banishment beyond the limits of the Borough into outer darkness. The intolerable part of the nuisanoe is that they are not confined to the boundaries of the owners' properties, but are allowed to pervade those of their quietly-disposed neighbours, whose small gardens suffer immensely by the hoi-ticultursl investigations of these feathered demons. Tho dirt they make about a place is by no means a trifling objection to the retention of them in a crowded neighbourhood. It may be suid that it is possible to keep them in the yards of the owners, but this, unfortunately, is never done. And, even if it were, tho outrageous noise of the winged peace-breakers would still be an immense nuisance to those who desire quiet, or for whom brain ferer or nervous complaints render it absolutely necessary. Light sleepers are invariably awakenei, and kept on the alert during the whole of the small hours of the morning, by the hideous yelling of these creatures, who take delight in preventing quiet and unobtrusive members of society from taking their ease. Some legislative provision onght surely to be made for abating the nuisance.