PUBLICANS, POLICE, AND MAGISTRATE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-If Mrs Jackson has been Wrongfully convicted of Sunday liquor selling by the perjury of the police or against the weight of evidence adduced before the Magistrate, her friends, instead of rushing into print to pose her as a martyr to polico scheming or magisterial blundering, should advise her to appeal against the decision to the Supreme Court. "Pro Bono's" effusion reads like the wail of a solicitor who had lost a case, and therefore must abuse the other side. He appears to be an authority on legal and polico matters. Our Judges, by implication, he says, aro not so courageous and independent as they aro in England. I think, sir, that our Judges and our Resident Magistrates give as great satisfaction in their administration of justice as any bench of Judges at Home. I do not include tho " great unpaid " (who had rightly nothing to do with the above case), "for them no fellah can understand." As to the police, my impression is. if they were to do what they are paid to do, Mrs Jackson would have had, with three exceptions, every hotelkccpor in Dunedin with her to answer a similar charge of Sunday trading, which seemingly it suits the police to ignore.—lam, etc., CIT. Dunedin, July 17.
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Evening Star, Issue 7266, 18 July 1887, Page 4
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