DRUNKENNESS IN DUNEDIN.

Evening Star, Issue 9834, 24 October 1895, Page 4

DRUNKENNESS IN DUNEDIN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sm, —Last night a respectably-dressed woman was observed about nine o'clock staggering along the street drunk—very drunk, indeed. A few hours before the time mentioned a well-known individual was to be seen tacking for home, wi:h grim determination not to be overcome in his effort to reach it. The attitude assumed of being all right was a miserable disguise, and imposed on nobody but himself. " Full to the bung " would aptly describe his condition. A strong feeling of indignation was aroused by the spectacle, which was not the first of the kind he had exhibited on our streets. Why the indignation? Because one remembers reading of cases at the Police Court, where this individual had taken his turn in dispensing law to the unfortunate drunks who were placed before him. And he is still a functionary of Astra?a. Now, what does my friend Mr Gibb say to these two facts. My own observation is this; that although I have had opportuni-

ties in the 'Home cities, and towns, from London the great even to Aberdeen the granitio, I have never, until now, oome aoross a J. P. staggering drunk along the stteetflj And yet, for many reasons,- Dunedin has less excuse than the cities of the Old Land,for such excess.—l am, etc., . ,:.■ ..."■' , : L.R (j . Dunedin, October 20. .