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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 195, 19 August 1890, Page 2

To Tiii* KniTon or thk "Evening Mail,"

Si a—" Merely an Onlooker " in your issue of last night must have written his prose on Sunday as it was wet, gloomily looking over the past week with something other than satisfaction. "With a sarcastic grin, half way on his face, he thinks pubhc houses ought to close at six o'clock. Perhaps he has to be in at that time and his wife, being supreme, holds the poker to prevent her dear boy being out too late at night. Being one of those who get away early I can easily use my own feelings for the benefit of others. " Onlooker " apparently thinks legislation ia of no avail in such cases as the present, but I submit that as we havo several times tried the miserable local option we find how impossible it is to accomplish the ends desired, When petitions containing thousands of signatures are sent out from other parts of the colony does it not send out a bitter wail of dissatisfaction. Surely six o'clock is late enough to close all respeotable establishments, And, further, we know everyone

oannot be pleased. Legislation may be madd workable and suitable to suoh places as lollio shops if " Onlooker " keep 3 one, Surely then we may content ourselves with the fact that such men as are Bent to rel.resent the people in Parliament will use their very best endeavours to secure only what is fair and reasonable. I am, &o„ Merely a Clerk. Nelson, 19 h August, 1890.