THE RECENT LARRIKIN CASE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 99, 23 January 1900, Page 3

THE RECENT LARRIKIN CASE.

TO TKE EDITOR. Sir, — Your correspondent, " Shilling Seat,' appears to be extremely anxious to defend the police in tho unjust and frholous charges against Hunt and Walton. His sneering remarks re sympathisers with rowdy element, is on a par with his sneaking attitude iv crawling under the coyer of a no>n deplume. His own signature, perhaps, would be a guarantee that he is not the greatest hoodlum in our midot who would nppat6.it y be will.ng to suppoit the police m petty tyranny and injustice. Numbers of respectable lais have been insulted^Tby the reinaiks of j our local officials, and it is time this course of conduct was stopped. By what right does the pobec brand an honest lad a loafer and blackguard. If our boys break the law the police have a legal remedy without the use of insulting remarks. ( And the lawdoes not require the testimony of " Shilling Seat." The Juctico of the Peace lie refers to wns a witness in the case with eight or ten other gentle men who were prepared to swear there was no disturbance at tho PaUiolic Mooting, ami that the lad, were the insulted parties, I assure you, Sir, I had no wish to bo drawn into this correspondence, but I coneider it my duty to protect those in my employ. " Shilling Seac " gives himself clean away at the end of his scurrilous remarks, when he says, " As if to lend himself to the cause of larrikiniern," thereby judging the case in opposition to the S.M.s decision. — 1 am, etc., Alfred Walker.

TO THE EDITOR. g IR) —^Vhat is to be 'done in order to obtain peace and quietness at the ' various meetings held for the future in our different halls ? Notwithstanding, Major Keddell's recent decision in the above case, it now Seems to me that the police will have to unnecessarily study their brains to bring about such required order and quietness required both for performers and those who constitute the audience. The thanks of the amusement goers abd others of the town are due to constable Parker's untiring efforts to suppress any and ail forms of larikinisrn, and an undoubted change for the better has been the result of his efforts which one and all niust conscientiously admit. When one takes into consideration that one of our J.P.s "lessening the dignity of his office in giving a considerable amount of his time in the courthouse prior to the trial amongst those and their friends who were called upon to answer the above charge last week, can it be true that this same J.P. had intended to offer his services to assist the defence in this particular ease ? It is therefore to be expected that the police will now have their work cut out in checking that which makes our places of amusement nothing short of bedlam, which the public have witnessed on ,many occasions m the past.' I consider it the sole duty of the police to take such steps necessary to secure for the public both that- peace and order which we, as British subjects, have a right to demarid, and, as I have already said, Constable Parker has, up ' to the present time, succeeded, beyond dispute, in doing so>-I am, etc., -*. Disgusted.

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