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Ministers have promised to give their early attention to the report of the Police Commission, and it is advisable, therefore, that the grave issues involved in the recommendations of the report should be pointed out and commented upon. To-day we do not propose to refer to the feud between Messrs [[Nicolson|NICOLSON]] and [[Hare|HARE]], and its consequences, on which the commissioners dwelt at length, beyond saying that the situation is for the most part the creation of Captain [[Standish|STANDISH]]. By favouring Mr HARE, whom he liked, and by acting harshly to Mr NICOLSON, whom he seems to have hated, Captain STANDISH converted what might have been an honourable rivalry into a bitter and unseemly strife, damaging to the two officers themselves, and disastrous to the country. It may he that if the police force is to be harmoniously worked, either Mr HARE or Mr NICOLSON must go, but that there is any necessity for pensioning off both of these officers, as the commission recommend, is by no means evident. Messrs NICOLSON and HARE are experienced officers, of high character and great ability; they are the picked men of the force, and to lose the services of both, even if the one must retire, appears to savour somewhat of folly.