ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 284, 21 March 1877, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

fW# wish it til bo most iliatinuSly umlorsnnnd f.haS w« mm imt. ivijiMiisilila mr tlw oi>uui»u> uxtuMAtal 0) «ur to raw (;om lout, a I ♦ CorUT Bt'SfNESS IN W.UMATE. I'D Tl-tK EDITOR. StR, —As I was passing through W;uluate, and having a little »p»re time t<-> look around mo, £ was strolling down the principal street, wlurn I saw a large urowd i moving in tin? dicuciion of the Courthouse, and thinking t tero was aimu excitement to- bo found there I followed into the Court. A person named fcj.ierrin was brought up on a charge of ttbeitiag G. M. Reed, of the Uiut-rdian newspaper, iKtuediri. Sergeant O'Connor asfcett the Bench (.VL Studholme, Esq.) to remand the accused for eight days' to t irnaru, and not to allow ball The accused appealed to the ,B«nch tu allow htiu to find sureties for his appearance at Tiiuaru, lutt bt-.inv the J. P. had time to answer, Sergeant O'Connor, to the surprise of every one prosant, said moat emphatically, " I'll not allow bail;." ami then, when, he saw the surprise depicted on everyone's eotmtenance in Court, excused himself by saying that lie had been instructed to object to bail, f must say, that 1 have never, in all tuy experience, heard of sue'i conduct iw that of Sergeant O'Connor talcing upon liima'.'lf the position i;E Police O.licit" and a Justice of t.ie Peacj at thj satuj time, tt seems t.iat, on my mentioning the eircumstaace ti ► a friend, it is only one of the estimable Sergeant's little peculiars- . and he wow and then indulges in ,11 by way of a little variety both to ,• , >11! and ill© inhabitants of Waimate. as Sergeant O'Connor uses} his faWe services in t ie interests of juswtitru hj is at present located, there n not iuuc ( business for the J. P. to I ""inaact, p i believe the Sergeant usually f

does the whole work himsslf. But then, again, some Waiinateans do not appear to appreciate his very valuable services a3 he trunks they ought to do, and he evidently tries to make himself as obnoxious as possible to all those wit»> d»> not happen to be friends of his. Happy FnVtit.U ! Happy Serg-ant! Happy V» annate! Trusting that Volt will insert the above.— 1 ant, &c., " AN Observer.