THE INSPECTOR H-A-D.

Manawatu Herald, Volume i, Issue 52, 25 February 1879, Page 3

THE INSPECTOR H-A-D.

Atticus writes in the Melbourne Leader:— "We hear a good deal about the temerity of Steve Hart, in visiting the haunts of men in female ccsttune, but his disguise has not even the merit of originality. In the old bushranging days of New South Wales, Charley O'Malley, I think it was, who adopted tho same tantics. He made a bot that he would be present at some races, and attired in habit and felt hat, and riding a well bred nag, he ap* peared on the racecourse The easy manner in which he feat his side-saddle attracted the attention of the Inspector of Police, the late Sir Fredrick Pottinger, who entered into conversation with the fair stranger, and fell a victim to her charms. After acting as esquire all day the police officer solicited the pleasure of escorting the would* be damsel home, an offer, however, that was declined with thanks. Sir Fredrick growing persistent, O'Malley put his horse at a fence, cleared it, and when at the other side, before galloping away, pulled off his hat and veil, and disclosed to the astonished gaze of his admirer, not the damask cheek of a rustic beauty, but the features of a criminal upon whose head a heavy reward wa3 set."