CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 16 February 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOISY NEIGHBORS

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sjii> ; —ls there no redress against what are commonly known as '' noisy neighbors,'' or must quiet, well - behaved people, who desire to keep regular hours, to the annoyance of being rcgidarly deprived of sleep' till long past" the midnight hour in consequence of the unseemly hilarity of certain young men and women who are now thumping a piano, now singing a noisy song, now trying a step dance in hob-nailed boots, and winding up with a general rampage, in which can be distinguished a block's distance off the '-loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind," mingled with the screech of five or six voices in unison, and a sound as if an equal number of bodies were rolling upon a floor r I ask these questions because this is the kind of thing that I, as well as other unfortunate residents in a certain part of a street not a thousand miles from that in which your paper is published, am compelled to listen to rive nights out of the seven when I should be enjoying " nature's soft bath "—balmly sleep. Now, I have no desire to quarrel with people for enjoying themselves in what fashion they please within the walls of their own houses, but when they pass the bounds of reasonableness, as in the present case, and become a public nuisance, it is quite a different thing. "A word is enough to a wise man."' —I am, &c, SoMNCS. Napier, February 10, ISS-'i.