THE WAIHI RIOT.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1323, 11 May 1905, Page 2

THE WAIHI RIOT.

TO IHB EDITOR, ; " Sm,-rYour correspondents have recently written many things on the above subjoot, wise and otherwise. I have waited in vain for the mention of the real cause of '' the deplorable affair—drink. The police ; were stoned (tho stone-throwers being ' more or less maddened with drink) in the -

'attempt'to bring toptioe a man who, on his oonfesston, was drank. And all this at a corner when a drinking bar had just disgorged itself of those whoso brains bad been set afire Surely, Mr. Editor, the moral is plain. Close the bars/; Do this for tho sake, of the men them? elves, for the sake of publio safety. Scores .of votes have been won for no lioense by the now famous riot.—l am etc, : . ■■'■■ '..•■'.■ Ooun 0. Habeiso>.