ARROW POLICE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 15, 20 June 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

ARROW POLICE.

To the Editor of the Lake Wakatip Mail. Sir,—Permit me through the medium of your paper to call the attention of the Government to the great want of police protection here during the night. Instead of this duty being performed by watchmen, I hear that police do the night duty at Queenstown, and I think if Mr. Sub-Inspector Morton would be kind enough to send one police officer to do duty here, instead of watchmen, he would confer a great boon on the inhabitants of Fox's. The watchmen, instead of locking up a set of rowdy characters who range about the town all hours of the night, satisfy themselves by advising them to go home, which only ends in a row, for in fact the watchmen are generally the drunkest of the lot, and sometimes they are totally incapable of doing duty at all—one in particular, who I hear

has been dismissed from the police force for drunkenness and bad conduct. Now, a man of this sort, who cannot conduct himself when under control, is not likely to do so when he thinks he is his own master. Therefore, Mr. Editor, by your kindly inserting this in your paper, I trust we, like Queenstown, will get police instead of our hopeful watchmen. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Argus. Arrow River, June 16, 1863.