LARRIKINISM.
TO THE EmiOK OF THE «EVENING MAIL.' Sib, —Where is the constable ? In bed and asleep as a proper constable should be during the hours that surround midnight, as a good example? Where is tha moral constable, the proper tone and feeling of society founded on the Christian maxim, ,l Do to others as you wou'd they should do to you"? Last night various little misdemeanours were perpetrated at Wakefield, such aa removing gates from their hinges and leaving them in the middle of the road, and flower-p ts from verandahs and breaking them, and the lamp from Jimmy L?e'a bri lge, where it wa* put to warn passengers against the obstruction in the roadway on the occasion of repairing the bridge. Query—lb it necessary to have a night constable, or were tho perpetrators among those who left the Forest Inn between 11 and 12 at midnight ? If the latter, then I suppose it ii the business of the General Government, which receives a revenue from the sale of that which leads to shame. Yours, &c, A Resident. Wakefield, July 7,1676.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 169, 8 July 1876, Page 2
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182LARRIKINISM. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 169, 8 July 1876, Page 2
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