LARRIKINISM STILL RAMPANT.
Despite the fact that both in the City Council and through the columns of the public journals the attention of the authorities has been called to the disgraceful larrikinism which p-evails on Sunday nights in our leading thoroughfares, no steps appear to have been taken to check the evil. Last Sunday evening in Cathedral square groups of half-grown larrikins were at their usual games hustling and insulting unprotected females. Your true larrikin is always a coward, so that unless they are about six or eight to one they dare not molest a lady having a protector, hut simply watch for some one alone. It appears useless to rely upon the police for protection in this matter, and therefore until some of these pests got what they undoubtedly deserve a sound thrashing—the evil will go on. As we before stated, Christchurch enjoys the unenviable notoriety of being about the only city in the colony in which it is impossible for a lady alone to walk in the principal thoroughfares after dark without. being insulted.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2289, 3 August 1881, Page 3
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