REFLECTIONS ON A POLICEMAN.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 122, 21 November 1893, Page 2

REFLECTIONS ON A POLICEMAN.

I [Bt Telegraph. | united press association.! ! Dunedin, This Dat. Recently, at a meeting to protest against the* Alcoholic Liquors Bill, the Rev. J. T. Hinton made some statements implying that a constable in a Prohibition district near Dunedin had become bankrupt through loss of tips formerly received from publicans. The oiroumitunces aa given pointed to Constable Carmody, of Bos!yn,and he was given permission to vindicate his character. Mr. Hinton published a letter apologising, ) and said his language must have been > unfortunately chosen. Carmody's solioil tors declined to accept this explanation - as candid, and dosired to get the paper from which the rev. gentleman bad road, conclncV ' ing by asking for the name of a solicitor to I accept service of writ. Mr. Hinton's solici- ' tors replied asking what the other side ■ wanted, and Carmody's solicitors replied i intimating that all that was desired was a > vindication of his character, and on the pub- > lication of the correspondence in the local papers and tho payment of all costs no further action would be taken. This has i been aocepted.