THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THE POLICE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4740, 2 November 1872, Page 3

THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THE POLICE.

Hi3 f Worship the Mayor received the following telegram from the Colonial Secretary yes-< terdaytipon the subject of the proposed change .in the control Df the police force :—: — " Government Buildings, November 1. To Mayori /Auckland.— Referring -to- -telegranr 30feh October re police, .Government is quite prepared to continue present arrangement," which has.givenjsatiaf action after two yeara } ; trial, if Provincial authorities desire its con-] tinuance. — John u Hall." We understand the Mayor telegraphed in reply to Mr. Hall that it would -be as 'well matters should remain, unchanged "until ""the Provincial Council met."' * r " ' '/ V ""'. - " It will be seen our Thames -te.legr*m3 that, jt hiB, Honor Superintendent has intimated toj^toe^ djsp^aj^n^ who^ jwgre^, »pplwntedri)y i 'alc3eefing'at ~ thT~Tnames " to wait npons'hiin: with reSpect'to -the^polic^ queiitxSn^tb'afctfo^chang^mUfbelmade^tit theJm»|tej: ? Yhaf . been aga^R , brought a before 1

S HOOKING SUICIDE WHILST UNDEK DELIRIUM TREMENS. Wk were placed in posse 3 ion of intelligence last evening by which we learn that a man named Patrick Reardon, who was one of the h fiu <ls engaged at Mr. W. S. Grahame'3 saw. mills at Kapuni, Wairoa, Kaipara, has been found drowned in "a stream above Mangawhare. The circumstances connected with this very melancholy affair are, as nearly as we can learn, as foil ?\v. It eat don l>ad be n drinking he.wily for three weeks previously to the 18th of last month, and during the whole of this time he was scarcely once sober. The man was missed on the 28th, and three days afterwards discovered drowned in the stream. On removing him from the water, Reardon, it was found, had fastened ono end of a boat's painter round his neck, and the other to a heavy piece of pig iron. Dragging himself to the edge of the bank of the stream, he must have precipitated himself in, and, his head retained by the weight of iron below water, he must have died immediately. Upon the discovery being made, intelligence was conveyed to the coroner, ?nd steps were at once taken to hold an inquiry, when Mr. S. Webb, acting as coroner, caused a jury to be summoned, and evidence taken, which resulted in a verdict to the effect that Patrick Keardon was found drowned, and that he had committed the act by his owu hands whilst suffering from delirium tremens brought on by the excessive drinking of spirits. It ia only right that a second inquiry should be instituted by the police authorities as to who it was that supplied a man with liquor in such repeated quantities as to keep him in a state of drunkenness for over a period of 20 days. There are not so many publichoases in the distiict but what the offence should without much difficulty be sheeted home to the guilty parties ; and this being done the licensing authorities should take prompt action in causing the house to bo closed under its present management.