CAMBRIDGE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3200, 22 May 1879, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

. ■[:;!:>,;■' ";■) ■Last-might.',. i !; This erening in the gloaming as; I was; .walking,from Hewitt's Hotel to garden's: offices; wHh Mr, Mitchelli ,and, "tHe Landi Commissioner,,we saw Graham, a leading; Kingite Chief, dragging a Woman along! the street by her arms, and when she sat down, lifting her up again by; the hair of ■her head, after shaking her and pulling her about by the hair, lifting her. Thej scene lasted some ten minutes, but there was no appearance of the police., I went down to Hewitt's Hotel, and saw one of the Armed Constabulary at the top of the stairs. I narrated what was being done in the main street; and asked him where were the police, and enquired fron^ him whether for the credit of the force he! would like me to wire the occurrence through the colony. He looked at me> and asked me if I knew what I was talk? ing about, and slowly condescended to see what species of brutality had • occurred^ after which he returned to his former oci cupatiori.' 1 There are ten; members of 1 the Armed Constabulary and two policemen in 8 the tpwn, and yet they , consider it beneath their, nofice to keep the peace among the Maori people. I am credibly informed that the3e occurrences are rife here, and that the Force look on as uninteras.ted,. and lunimpassioned. spectators, considering: their duties alone to be to carry despatches and act as orderlies. When twelve men jStationed in a' small town like Cambridge cannot prevent su,ch a disgusting exhibition of brutality oc; curringi 'the thought arises whether thp police management should, not be put in other than Whitemore's hands..." >; ,;■ ;