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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4451, 25 June 1875, Page 2

The City Council and the city niyhtmen are at loggerheads, and the manner in which the first-named dignified body harries the latter speaks more for its earnestness in the discharge of duty than for the members' taste. However, the Councillors do not shrink from their duty ; committees have sat and written long reports containing statesmanlike enunciations on the nasty subject, and the Council has debated their reports and recommendations, and passed resolutions with as much seriousness as if the subject matter had been the impending loan, and. the result is this—that no nightman other that he who has entered into a solemn compact to do the work for three years shall be allowed to ply his vocation. Therefore, it may be said of the nightmen—their "occupation's gone"—and they must find some other channel in which to expend their energy and employ their capital. Some object to this, and therefore by advertisement announce their intention to enter into competition with the Corporation nightman, and bid defiance to the Council in its character as a monopoly granter. The Council has taken up the gauntlet, and the Inspector of Nuisances is to see that no unlawful trade is carried on in the "dead vast and middle of the night." After all its a shocking small affair.