A NUISANCE.
To the Editor of the Marlborough Express
Sir, —In these days of epidemics, anything calculated to cause ill-health amongst the community, may fairly excite apprehensions and condemnation. Neighbours’ quarrels a newspaper has nothing to do with ; but when these culminate in a practical joke, generally offensive and injurious, they come within the class of nuisances which may well be publicly reprobated. It appears that an auctioneer in High-street, loved his neighbour, a draper, next door, to the extent of paying him out by erecting a water-closet within a foot (or a couple of feet) of his well. Now as the draper has a wife and child anil female servant dependant upon that well for. water, I cannot admire the manliness or delicacy of the arrangement, and let that part of it slip, as it is rather gross ; but the public have a say in it, whether wells are to be poisoned, and cholera or other plagues introduced amongst them The matter has excited the attention of passers by, like myself, who feel it due to themselves, to say that such offensive tricks cannot be publicly passed off upon any one.
Yours, &c., A Townsman. Blenheim, August. 27th, 1868.
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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 133, 29 August 1868, Page 4
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200A NUISANCE. Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 133, 29 August 1868, Page 4
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