THE LYTTELTON BATHING PLACE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1354, 2 February 1865, Page 5

THE LYTTELTON BATHING PLACE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LTTTEI/TON TIMES. SiR ? —A censorious spirit and a readiness to find fault are justly considered uncharitable and unamiable, and I cannot but think that this has been displayed to the full by those who, under the garb of pudor et modeslas, by frivolous and vexatious informations, have (hitherto fruitlessly, I rejoice to say) endeavoured to put a stop to the bathing in Damafter mature deliberation aid consideration, on the report of an appointed committee, and with the approbation of a large portion of the inhabitants of Lyttelton, the Council agreed a site, fixed rules, regulations, and charges, which I am sure no one would wilfully or intentionally infringe upon, and it is monstrous and unpardonable that the valuable time of his worship the Resident Magistrate should, week after week, be taken up in hearing cases as to indecency and exposure or person, never fully proved, and which, after having weighed the matter in all its bearings, and quoted cases in Scotland, he most wisely and justly has always dismissed. There is an old saying that " Too much politeness is no politeness at all," and the same may be said of modesty and shame. Begging the insertion in the columns of the next publication of your valuable paper of these few lines, which I am vain enough to think two-thirds 01 the inhabitants of Lyttelton will agree in, lams '°So & BOSO PUBLICO.