Constable Gillespie.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 33, 9 January 1885, Page 2

Constable Gillespie.

...... ■-. ■ (Feilding Star) „.v , . ; We regret.to learn, that the .steps taken by Constable Gillespie m connection .with a recent prosecution where a licensed victualler was the defendant have resulted m the v vials of wrath " of his official superiors being opened and poured' upon his devoted head. What-, ever, may be the. views taken by those ,-" placed m authority over him," it must | be a great satisfaction to Mr Gillespie to know that his' actions- were endorsed,! and upheld with approving notices, by j every paper on this coast, and by every j right thinking man. lv Palmerstoh and Feilding .Constable Gillespie has been a /" terror to evildoers," yet haß earned the esteem of the law-abiding part of the community. He ha.s been not only a painstaking officer but a most eligible citizen, and should ~lie bo driven, by a course of unwarranted tyranny, from the service to which he has. been such an ornament, lie will be gladly welcomed as a settler among those' who have by a long experience of his worth learned to estimate.his good qualities at ; their proper value.' As ! has been the case from the beg'itining' of tiihe, he, like altfothers who have endeavoured , to do their duty without respect of persons, has undoubtedly made strong ami bitter enemies, woo have exercised an influence against him the evil - consequences of which ..should, haye ..been -feuded, off by - his .superiors, but wt. suspect that m thJB case of "some of the, latter, they haVe been Only too glad to see a popular brojther officer v slated " a little, there altways being'a slight feeling of satisfaction to be discovered m the misfortunes ojf our fellows, even on the part of the moat liberal of, us. We . understand that th'o destination' of Constable Gillespie is the Waitara, where we have every coutideuce he will win the good esteem df the residents, although he inn!y f eel a certain diffidonce m doing his duty wheii his actions are so likely to be looked at with jealous eyes by his superiors. Wje heartily^wish him good luckj and confusion' to his enemies. '■■■'■-■' ' : • ' - \'■