AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2426, 14 January 1882, Page 3

AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE.

Many vigorous letters have appeared in the local journals from time to time respecting the nuisance of the Cathedral bells. Of the justice of such complaints there can be no doubt, but there exists in our midst a nuisance even more intolerable than this. Wo refer to the auctioneers’ bells. In all parts of the city, more particularly in the most crowded thoroughfares, the passers by are deafened with the noise of innumerable bells, wielded by persons who take a fiendish delight in annoying their fellow-creatures. It was Mr. Weller, senior, we think, who defined the highest form of revenge on the human race to be keeping a turnpike. In these modern days, as no turnpikes exist, misanthrophic individuals have had to take refuge in boll ringing. How successful they are in accomplishing their bell purpose the many aching heads, induced by their horrible din, can bear full testimony to. In Dunedin the nuisance grew so intolerable that the City Council interfered and prohibited bell ringing. Here it has now reached to such a pitch that a similar interference on the part of our Council is most necessary. We trust, therefore, seeing that the practice has become a most flagrant public nuisance, the Council will take steps to abolish it.