A NEIGHBOURLY NUISANCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 793, 16 April 1879, Page 2

A NEIGHBOURLY NUISANCE.

[to THE BDli’Oß.]

Sir—l notice that you and and very justly too; complain bitterly of that pest the goat nuisance, and ohH loudly to the powers that he for pi of tection, to which you have undoubted right, as all citizens should have fnun all nuisances, flora whatever cause; but although poor Wan is visited with the severe penalty of the law, even death itself, there are other animals a thousand degrees worse who are allowed to carry on their destructive pro-: pensities, notwithstanding the continual appeals made to the powers that be for its check. It is not poor Nan that I complain of this time, but a} had imitation of the hnniau Creation which inhabits a den, for I could tint call it a tything else, situated on one of the public ri.ada leading to and fimn Kumnra. It Is the resort of all the reputed fallen women of Kurilnra. The young brood, for they are not deserving tho ii.«me of children, are il j>e*tilence td the neighbors and society- at large, more especially to school and other children who are foreud to pass that way, and are very often obliged to take refuge in some house and be escorted past that domicile to escape the attacks of this ill'brought-up brood of young mischiefs 1 wlio are encouraged by a respectable mother 1 which I will prove to you further on. The young hopefuls seem to have no more respect for the mother' than they think she ddserves, if their language to her (which is filthy beyond any comparison) can be taken as an index ; but it is scarcely tb* be wondered at with such an example before their eyas. What the respectable jiortion gf the neighbours have to coniplain of most is the continual annoyartce and loss sustained by the stond-throwing of this contemptible mob, both old and young. So much do they devote themselves to it that it is not Bale to sit or stand beside a window. Only a short time ago a stone* which may Vet be* seen, came with full force against the side of the window while the owner or tenant was working inside, within 18 inches of the glass: The stone weighed l|lbs., and was thrown about 9.30 p.m., not by a child, and I don't think a man would be so dastardly. There is a moral satisfaction that the stone was thrown out of what answers as a yard attached to this nest. The general amusenie'nt, however, is breaking the neighbours' windows, and destroyiug or taking away property. More especially do unoccupied houses suffer,- the firewood suffers, the clothes lines Suffer, and the people's water for domestic purposes suffers. Now, should any one doribt mey I reftf* them to any one who ever lived in the neighbourhood, except it may be some dabblers who are partly living by such characters, and can't see anythiug: So that on the whole 1 think that those who carry on a legitimate business and pay the Government for the privilege*, have a right to be' protected against the annoyances of disreputable" shantykeepers, who are not asked to pay for the ground they occupy, and with their" good qualities. Others' there are, people who claim to be respectable—save the mark—and wbd would be the first to detract the impenetrable reputation of a neighbour, wbd allow their children to associate with this family who has the cunning and mis chievons habit of a brood of Gibraltar ringtail monkeys, and who ever saw those animals and don't know their villiany f Sir, I am induced to beg your indulgence, for the subject is becoming uffbwafcible, and if the law does not protect the neighbours, they are determined to do it themselves, at all risks.—* I am &c.j

A StJFFfiBKR. Kumdraj April I§, 1879;