CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 89, 20 September 1873, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our columns are open for free discussion ; but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents.} TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,— As touching the question of Insurance risks in the township of Gisborne, and with the experience most of us have had in the shape of losses by fire, I think it cannot be too much enforced upon the attention of all concerned that where the dangers seem to be multiplied by closely-built buildings, especially in hotels —it behoves them to guard against accidents by fire, which are generally the result of carelessness or something worse. I am credibly informed that on one or two occasions lately the scenes of midnight revelry, and drunken orgies that, have been carried on in one of our hotels in Gisborne, have been such as to attract public attention on account of the positive danger likely to have resulted th ref'-ooi. Wh n we find that gentlemen, (?), J. P.’s, ■»’: J oiliers engaging in nocturnal amusements, inarching through an hotel at 3 o’clock in the morning, with flambeaux made of ignited spirits, contained in a chamber candlestick, and all the other paraphernalia of demoniacal amusement, it high time to look to the consequences of a fire breaking out in Gisborne, as also to enquire whether there is any law which regulates the internal management of our licensed houses, so that an increased risk is not offered to the rest of the town. While the above was lying on my desk I heard of a very narrow escape the whole of “ Read’s Block” had the other day, through the carelessness of some one at. the Albion Hotel. Surely we require the application of some Municipal laws to alter this state of things. Apologizing for troubling you. —I am, &c., W ATCHMAN. [lf “Watchman’s” assertions are true —-certainly the causes of his complaints are town talk —the sooner an alteration takes place the better. We had a notice respecting the narrow escape from fire already in hand on receipt of our correspondent’s letter. — Ed. P