SIR C. WARREN RESIGNED.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 2

SIR C. WARREN RESIGNED.

CAUSE OF RESIGNATION. ATTACKS UPON HIM BY NEWSPAPERS Lospos, Nov 13. Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of Polios, has resigned his position. His resignation was due to attacks which have been made upon him k|y newspapers in eonssquence of the helplessness of the policy with regard to the recent murders, He had also bean officially censured for writing an article in Murray’s Magazine, defending the Department,

Sir Charles Warren is about fifty years of age, but he is a simple-mannered, somewhat youthful-looking gentleman. His accession to power was consequent on a breakdown in the administrative machinery, when the mob inflamed by the harangues of the Trafalgar Sqbara orators,-sacked the shops in the. West End, dragged ladies from their carriages ind tore the jewellery off them, and for a short time created such a panic in London as had not qe«n since the famous Charter scare many yeaars age. Sir Charles Warren han lately returned from South Africa, where M had won golden opinions from the colonists, and had shown himself a born administrator in the face o! diffiouUiM which would have dismayed most men. He was described as a judicious and able administrator, a brave and daring commander, and a soldier fertile in resource and skilled in adapting himself to any circumstance, He is a soldier .who would adorn any rank, and it was prophesied thit when be had been in his recent gffico for a few years h’ 3 administration wdulfl raise’the police force of the Meiropofiij ts a peaitiort unrivalled in finy other great capital in Europe*. Ut6 rise, however, to a great outcry against me Commissioner, and against the whole police force; but on cool consideration there seems to be very little reasonable ground for outcry. Still when there happen such extraordinary events as the recent Whitecbaccj murders, there, is no limit to the denunciations of a frenzied people. The Dunedin Exhibition guarantee fund has now reached £6OOO.