SITTING ON THE RAIL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 20 February 1880, Page 3

SITTING ON THE RAIL.

To the Editor. Sir,— Without wishing to cast any reflections on the police, who, to their credit, perform their duties on the whole very satisfactorily, 1 should like to call attention to the obstruction to the footways, and inconvenience to ladies especially, caused by tho numerous loungers on every bridge, and at every street corner in the town. The unseemly comments and had taste displayed by some of the loafers who usually frequent these places on a Sunday, must be very annoying to passers-by, and I would ask you, Sir, whether there is no law to put an end to this sort of thing. If there is not, I think it is quite time the Borough Council passed one to meet the case.—l am, &c. Loafer.

[AVe have made enquiries concerning the nuisance complained of by our correspondent, and we are informed that a byelaw exists which inflicts a fine of not less than 40a on every conviction of a breach thereof; therefore, the remedy lies with the police. —Ed. M.T.}

A RETURN COMPLIMENT. To the Editor. Sir,— As a parent of one of the boys gibbetted in so unwarrantable a manner in the Express of Tuesday, as not passing the Civil Service Examination, permit me to make public an opinion on the subject. I am far from being dissatisfied at my boy not passing, because he passed the Sixth Standard just before the holidays, having leaped from the Fourth in one year. Hitherto it lias been usual in Blenheim at least for the Local Press to encourage “Our Boys ” by every means conceivable but this new departure will have the effect of preventing them from coming forward for examination in future, lest in case of failure their names will he exposed topublicscornand ridicule by the youth who nowguides the destinies of what was once the leading journal of Marlborough. It is much to be regretted that politics should he carried into such 1 matters as the public schools, butto no other cause can be attributed the specimen of tomfoolery to which 1 draw attention. Anxiety to go for the master has brought the blow upon the scholars. It is just as well that people should understand the sort of thing that is going on.—l am, &c., A Parent.