To the Editor of the "'Nosra-Cuixa Dary News Sis,—The paragraph at the foot of the first column on page seven in this morning's issue of your Paper quoting an instance Which may amuse your renders, In the early days of Rhodesia, to be exact in 1893, the late Captain Lendy, seconded for service with the British South Africa Company from the Royal Horse Artillery, was Tesident Magistrate at Victoria, Mashonaland, and while imbued' with the usual traditions of British justice certainly knew more about sol-ring than law. One evening while strolling round Victoria he chanced to meet an old prospector aequaintlance, who persuaded him to lay aside the "cold isolation of the bench" and to join him in a drink at one of the numerous bars of that Prosperous little town, 'One drink, and the recalling of old yarns, led to another, with. the result that at closing time they parted in somewhat convivial mood, both declaring how much they' hi enjoyed the evening and expressing the wish that their next merry meet {ing might not be long delayed, wasn't. On the way home the prospector fell into the hands of the law for being drunk and. tain Lendy managed. to put one of his eyes into mourning by stumbling over a. stump.
Next morning the prospector was brought before the magistrate, Capt, Tandy, and charged' with being affairs'is in a measure, if not entire ly, due to the policy "of mistaken Kindness which vosulted years neo in the abolition of the cangue andi the Bamboo. It is somewhat late to oxy, over spilt milk but without " doubt the urgency of the matter calls strongly to those in authority to re~ introduce corporal punishment fin Chinese criminals, As certain class ses of the population can only be influenced through their pockets so the criminal classes can only be cone trolled through their hides. A' cor~ tain section of social reformers will always" argue against _corpor punishment as degrading to society but surely it is better to rid the place of these dastardly criminals at any, cost rather than allow respectable Yesidents to be foully murdered. If the miscreants get to know that the bamboo is again in force it will not bbe long before they leave the settlement severely alone. This is no idle theory, but a suggestion made in all seriousness and one which should meet with the approval of all law loving citizens both Chirere and foreign, Those who sit in arm chairs comfortably away from seat of danger should not be allowed recommended. It may be somewhat Jate in the day, but urgency d+ mands that steps be taken in the direction indicated before it is 1 ly too late, Tam, ete, Brutus,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.