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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 2

It would seem that the public feeling against the informer Timms, of Wanganiu t who prosecuted the Mayor elect, is 'nearly as 'intense as when Constable Gillespie was being removed from Palmers- £ ton. A correspondent m the Herald thus writes ob the subject : — " I well remember seeing a public minded informant against a Sabbath breaking pubftcan, tarred and feathered and riddea round the digging township on a sharp rail amidst jeerings and hootings, dead cats \ and rotten eggs, , aud to tbe music- of a ..discordant band playing an air familiar to those who have seen a soldier drummed out of a regiment. If such au indignity were offered to Mr William Timms, there would not be a dry eye m Wanganui, nor a rotten egg left for our Christmas puddings, as I feel sure, such is the high respect m which he is held, that no trouble or expense would be spared to convince him of the esteem and respect m which he is deservedly held by the ratepayers of Wanganui.