THE COMMISSIONER OF ARMED CONSTABULARY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1097, 2 November 1869, Page 2

THE COMMISSIONER OF ARMED CONSTABULARY.

We make rather a lengthened extract from an Otago contemporary, having reference to the gentleman who recently held the appointment of Commissioner of Police in that province, and who now enters upon the more onerous and responsible duties of Commissioner of Armed Constabulary. We allude to Mr. St. John Branigan. Mr. Branigan is likely to be closely associated, in the future, with the events of the Northern Island, and anything having reference to his past career will be read with interest. It would appear that he possesses the talent of organization in |a very remarkable degree, as well as the still rarer faculty of doing his work in a manner to command the personal reapect of all associated with him ; and, although at first we thought the experiment of placing what must, to some extent, be a military force, under charge of a gentleman who does not profess to have military experience, one of a somewhat doubtful character, we now believe — from what we learn of the- actual scope of Mr. Branigan's duties, and the character of the man — that the Government, in appointing him, have taken a most judicious, and indeed greatly called for, step. Mr. Branigan, we learn, will visit Napier at a very early period.