COMMERCIAL RIGHTS.
To the Editor of the Daily Southien Cross. Sir, — Can you inform me if it is the correct thing for a police-constable to net as a reporter to a daily, or, in fact, any journal ? When poor constable Bastie did duty here, he was severely censured, I am led to understand, for dabbling in a hasty moment in bucolical matters- selling a ha'p'orth of milk and » pennyworth of vegetables ; but his successor has the unalloyed pleasure of wielding the facile pen, com menting freely on men and manners ; and get* well pud for it, over and above bis policencan's wages, How is this ? — I am, Ac , NUNQUAM DOEMIO. Onehunga, February 9, 1867. [We have heard something of this before, and beg to direct Mr. Commissioner Naughton'a attention to the same. It is certain that a policeman cannot be' attending to his public duties, when reporting pro* ceedings at meetings. — Ed. D.S.C.]

POLICE DUTIES.
