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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11734, 12 September 1902, Page 5

The nuisance of street music is once more engaging the attention of the London householder. If the flagrant noise boxes would come but single spies, they might be borne with a patient expectancy of the quiet when they are gone. But they come in battalions. One often hearsi three different performers at the same time. "The police are powerless to interfere. It is complained that there is no power to inspect! and register the instruments of torture, which are often out of tun©, to the great detriment of the public ear. An indignant householder writes:—"l cannot leave my dinner tablla to drive away the man who is worrying my guests, and1 I will not expose my maid servant* to his rudeness. This is how we protect ourselves from a nuisance." The picture suggested of the host rushing from his. dinner table to chase a liean and siwai'tJiy Italian down an. eligible residential street almost makes up for the suggested gastronomic discomfort. The last word is with the organ grinders. Browning speaks for them by the mouth of Abb Vogl'er : —"The rest may reason and we'tome; 'tis we musicians, know."

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