“The police camp at Dunrobin is a sore grievance with nearly all the people on the field. They cannot understand why some half a dozen blackboys, their gins, besides a camp-keeper and a complete establishment, should be kept up merely to look after a few horses for the escort. Were they occasionally kept on patrol they would be doing some good, as they would exercise a check on the blacks, who rob miners’ camps, kill cattle, and do a considerable amount of damage every year. Those people who do not trouble the police by reporting depredations take the law into their own hands. In this way law-abiding people and the blacks themselves suffer, which might be prevented by an energetic officer and a few troopers patrolling the outside places. At present the native police branch study their own comforts. The blacks who camp outside the town here must have a hard struggle for existence.”