A HARD CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3922, 25 September 1891, Page 2

A HARD CASE.

I have seen (says " Mercutio " in the Auckland Herald) a good many acts o* harsh tyranny in my time in the case tf Uofcitable Gordon, late of jjVhajgareiyig likely to be as famous w?» as that of Constable Gillesje, £f Manaia, where public opinioi &nfy compelled the reparation to the unfortunate officer. Constable Gordom, it may be premised,has been stationed for years at Whaqjarci, and Dot only fulfilled the dutiesof constable, but clerk of the Magnate's and Warden's Court, receiv-r of goldfield revenue, and half adoztaother things, besides beingai good clerk. [Suddenly a >Jfl(fl arrive,, transferring FaerQ. Of that complin, as the that or him^^^^^^^^^^^^^l

obeying the ukase offered to him, is living in exile from his family. When I say that Constable Gordon enjoys the approval of his commanding officer; that ho has eighteen years' service without a single murk on his "defaulter's shoot" and is thu.s brutally treated, and mulcted in £47 a year without even a single reason being assigned, the public will have some idea of the pass that things have come under the Liberal Government-heaven save the mark! If the best men in the service are treated thus what may the rest expect ? Such treatment would break the heart of a bullock, to say nothing of that of a man, and I have known men in the Imperial service lose their reason through being the victims of

official tyranny far less degrading, severe and contemptible.