A DISORDERLY DEN.

NZ Truth, Issue 123, 26 October 1907, Page 6

A DISORDERLY DEN.

A Montreal-street Nuisance. Bawdy houses m ChristchurcK are • numerous enough m all conscience ; 1 they are not so numerous as aforetime, but they break out m fresh- pla-. ces and are a confounded nuisance to .Ithe locality. A new one has transpired m Montreal-street, of all plac•es, and Montreal-street isn't used to ithe pastime, and doesn't like it, and is saying so with some violence. It is a cfuiet nuns-retreat sort of a place is Montreal-street North, and '.when sheol breaks- out the vicinity is .soon aware of the lamentable fact 'that someone has lost his hat or !liis cash, or that the beer bottle has ibeen travelling round too freely, and Ithat the stagger juice has been of unsvonted vitality. An elderly woman and her fragile daughter rented a " cottage on the left hand side ot the street as you make for the Belt, and angelic people they seemed. But they speedily, proved angels with -devil's pinions, for they had a great many /visitors, young girls and men, none of whom seemed to live m that thortoughfare, and things began to only get middling for the neighbors. They made themselves an infernal nuisance, and played sheol generally, unftil all hours m the night. Birthday parties morning and night got so frequent that residents began !TO ASPERSE THE CHARACTERS of the occupants, and to call them harlots and other unpleasant and obnoxious names. Then the police, m Ithe shape of one tall, clean-shaven gent, who ponders lingeriagly on the mutability of human affairs, and who sheds tears of regret at the immorality of mankind, was called to the scene, and . watched with a great (watch outside the domicile until the bour grew late and cold, and uncomKortabte. Then he left. It is a pity a constable wasn't provided with a gramophone and the sounds of revelry he would hear by night would the recorded faithfully, and would prove a grealt addition to the gaiety of, savage nations. However, the representative of the law, who didn't probably hear the lewd jests and witness other business, hasn't taken action, but the landlord has. However, he was forced to give a week's notice Ito his dearly beloved tenants, and during last week, or early portion {thereof, everything m the daffodil field has been lovely. There has been hell to play, and the neighbors have suffered to no inconsiderable extent, from «£ oral point of view— so far as ftheirW Jdren are concerned, that is. IProba»ly the unvirtuous party will shif fc to a more aristocratic part of .the city now, and they will be run m .under some 'Act m one minute and ,itwo seconds.