THOSE CHIMES.

Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 1

THOSE CHIMES.

TO THB EDITOR. Sir, — A. Scotchman by birth, with a semicolonial education, it naturally follows thafc I am very fond of the pibroch or bagpipe music as compared with that of the Heathen Chiree. I have been accustomed to hear Italian, French, and English opera, bufc never hars I beard such irritating music, bccalled, as that jingled out in the South Ward area. I have heard the "jingle,"many 3 ears ago, of the Logan cow-bells, when wandering about on the Town Belt and Queen street district, which sounded to my youthful ' ears quite musical in comparsion with " those chimes." Why should these bells or chimes become a nuisance to those who live within a mile of them? It is said that there are "queer folk V the Shaws" {P°5lockshswß), but I think, with all due deference and reverence to the Rev. Thomas Nesbifc, that there are just as "queer" folk in Dunedin, more .especially amongst the city councillors, many of whom don't understand the music of the newlyimported blow-hard bagpipes, which play in tune with the chimes of the Town Hall clock, —I am, etc., Donald. July 23.