Such is the power of these men that although nearly 900 to 400 people watched the constable being beaten with a beer bottle and kicked about the head, no one came forward to his aid, until by chanco spector of the force passed on his way to the Station. Finally with the aid of two plain clothes-the attackers were beaten off, and on the arrival of more officers from the Russell Street Barracks the main offenders were arrested.
But they got off with a fine of £10, as many of them do, and as these ruffians are reputed to blackmail shop keepers and householders living in their areas, they care little for fines. Mr. Blarney the Chief Commissioner of Police says that the force has the various pushes well in hand, but members of the force themselves look sternly ahead, say nothing and look a lot, if questioned on the matter. The death of young Clare has hit them very hard, and they live in hopes of the day they can bring these miscreants up before magistrates inflict maximum penalties, with them as they have dealt with others.
Father of Australian Parliaments:
It is not so many months ago, a gentleman travelling in Australia, something of an enthusiast Physiological psychology, told me that he noted in the new countries of the world, that is, America and Australia, a lack of reverence. Not ea much in its religious, meaning as pertaining to idealism and
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