MOVE ON.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 555, 20 October 1871, Page 2

MOVE ON.

! To tfrd E/iitor of tlie'fiVii/iNa^TAB

:,;!£iiß, —Auckland hf> hitherto prided <her Bel /: on I being essentially a musical c'ty. Phil liarjnonie, n»al-harmov>ic, eacdp'fidiUc, and other musical guilds, have always b .n in full: concord or discord.- 'I'll c general notion bi'tjhe citizens appears to have hitherto been thai music, good,1 ;b;.d, or indifferent, is a pJeaVng and drsiruble aec(.sso:y to a harmoirous blending of all social tir . Not long a;Vo an edif?ce wh:ch had bran ere^trd for the purpose of music was. burned down by some vaoabond who had none in his bouL ' Another, infinitely more gorgeous, wai jmmediat&lyl ejected on the site. Fyom this people inferred tliat the science was1-about'to be developed to an extraordinary degree, and (hat the public generally were. to. be allowed to participate in. the harmless pleasure of: listening to vth'e vai'ous sounds produced by tbe dexterous manipulation of the seven notes. But it sodras that our precious Municipal authorities' think otherwise, aWi- have actually forbidden two performers, of no meau degree of skill and !taste, from delighting the ears of the citizens by " making a noise, in thp streets," arid have compelled them to " move oh." In every civilised city in the...woxld but this hyper-enlightened one, street music of a pVoper class is allowed, and i's'/glaidly paid for by tlie citizens. Here our martial ardour is bO highly developed sihatUwe i'can toleratenothing but the sqeaking fife, the braying trumpet,ithoclangingcymbals,or:the thunder-: ing drain. ' There" must surely be something wrong in the formatipiyof the aural > appendages of these cftnstructora of the by-law's, who tolerate any kind of hideotts noise when the perpetrators are •'? moving! on/! a»;d cannot listen'with patience to the best harmonies when j produced by musiciuns st inding in a retired by-street.—l.am, &c, '•> • ■'■ 0 I ■ Peank.

To. the Editor of the Evening-Star,

Sib,-—Will you. kindly'insert the following in your valuable paper :— ,',■.[ !

■'■ Police AMUSEMENTS.-r-Tiie police of Auckr laud seornto.be at a loss for want of: employment, toy' when they cannot succqed in preventing two poor wandering minstrels l'i'om earning an honest penny in. the streets, they ruthlessly seize upon a poor defenceless girl (crippled with rheumatism), and drag her