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Press, Volume L, Issue 8591, 19 September 1893, Page 3

Correspondents are requested to make their communications short. While always anxious to find space for letters on questions of interest, we do not undertake to publish them unless they are short and to the point. Tne necessity for brevity is especially great during the •easionof Parliament. SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE SQUARE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir, —Some few months ago a notice was served on Mr Wallace Nelson from the City Council, forbidding him delivering addresses in Cathedral square. The reason given was that his utterances were calculated to create a breach of the peace. Now, one would have imagined that the same paternal anxiety for the safety of the citizens that filled the breasts of our Civic Fathers on that occasion would have aroused them ere this to take steps to stop the disgraceful scenes in Cathedral square ou Saturday evenings. What iB more likely to create a breach of the peace than the libellous statements made from time to time by leaders of the prohibition movement? 1 venture to say that in no other town iv New Zealand would such language be tolerated as uttered at these meetings. In conclusion, I would ask, should a disturbance arise, and damage be done to property, or life and limb endangered, who would be responsible —the City Council or the Inspector of Police ?—I am, &c, Not Under the Thumb.of the Liquor Ring.