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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2505, 21 January 1887, Page 2

We learn from an indirect ohannel that Mr G. Beetham, after a somewhat lengthened absence from this district, is about to address his constituents from Pahiatua. Why Masterton, the principal centre of population in the electorate, should be passed over wo know not, but probably a satisfactory explanation of an apparently inconsistent arrangement will appear in due course.

Oub local contemporary in his last issue again rofors to his recent attack on Sergeant Price, and says, "If wo know for a fact that constables are bullied about'by their superior officers and receiving treatment that men possessing a spark of manhood or the slightest self-respect must resent, wewill not hositato to pußlisli their wrongs, and if wo.,cannot get,reparation we wil'l at leftist' obtain" •sympathy —a sentiment that" inevitably precedes reform."; ,Of course our contemporary in making this statement is aware that Sergeant PHco's hands are tied so that he cannot reply to it. We do not profess to haveacoessto the secret sources fhich inspire our contemporary, but , o have, as an old colonist, a eoniiderable respect for the high personal character of tho, men who constitute the New Zealand constabulary department, and whenwe find one of them acting as a tell-tale and informer, and stabbing his officer in the baok by the aid* of our local 'contemporary, we do not%sitate to pronounce'him a disgrace to an honorable corps. We have ' known Sergeant Price-for many years, and we have no hesitation in saving •that the 'attack made uponiim through our contemporary is a base, cowardly;' and contemptible calumny. We defy our contemporary to pipye. what he advances by any creditable testimony, and wejenture to say tfiat if Sergeant Price wit,': by, the -regulations of the service, free to' 'reply tb the slanders now promulgated,"our contemporary would not dare to utter %m .