PIG NUISANCE.
(2b th* Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus) Sib,—"Will you kindly inform me i * with the incoming summer weather, we are to be compelled to submit quietly to the abominable nuisance consequent on, and inseperable from, the keeping of pigs in the Township. We are appalled when we hear of the ravages of disease and death in other parts of the Island. But we ought to take warning, and adopt at least what precautions we can, to prevent an outbreak in Westport, of a plague, by the which, our nearest and dearest friends, may be torn relentlessly from us for ever. Now that the warm weather has come, 'its surely time other places than the centres of population were found, for the herding and feeding of pigs, and their disease-breeding • concomitants, and I trust immediate steps
will be taken in the proper quarter, to abate the nuisance. The importance of the matter is my apology, for trespassing on your space. Tours truly, Pro Boko Publico. Sept. 19, 1868,
[We are told by the police, that if persons residing in the neighbourhood of such nuisances will give information, steps will be at once taken, without it being necessary for the person complaining, to lay a formal information.— j Ed. W. T.~\
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 357, 22 September 1868, Page 3
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214PIG NUISANCE. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 357, 22 September 1868, Page 3
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