IMPERTINENT OFFICIOUSNESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 235, 7 October 1867, Page 2

IMPERTINENT OFFICIOUSNESS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Eyknijtg Mail Sie — I was surprised not to find some allusion ia your notice of the Concert given by the Harmonic Society on Thursday to the impertinent officiousness manifested by the individual who has charge of the Provincial Hall, and who has made himself obnoxious by similar conduct on previous occasions. The cautions which he more than once addressed from the floor of the Hall in a stentorian voice to a few of the pupils of the Nelson College who occupied the gallery, and who were conducting themselves with the greatest propriety, were most uncalled for, and must have been exceedingly annoying to their parents, many of whom were present. I have the authority of a gentleman of high position in this city for stating that the somewhat uproarious demonstrations which proceeded from the gallery at a late period of the evening did not emanate from the juveniles, but from two individuals who had; unauthorised, made their way into it. Certainly the provocation which the boys received from the hallkeeper would almost have justified them in defying the execution of the threats so gratuitously uttered; but I was happy to observe that they gave the best proof of discipline and of their innate sense of propriety by abstaining from any retaliation whatever. I trust that the committee will caution this very demonstrative individual from indulging in such gratuitous exhibitions of impertinence and officiousness on any future occasion, the more especially as I happen to know that in more than one instance some of our 'leading inhabitants,' who have been subjected to insult and annoyance from the same source, refuse to attend the concerts of the Society so long as he has charge of the arrangements, and that complaints are rife on the subject. I am, etc., Observer. Nelson, October 6.