Fetish of Oral Complaints.

ATTENTION has again and again been drawn in these columns to the fantastic circulars issued by Mr. C.M. King as district magistrate on the subject of oral complaints. There is nothing to be said against a man preferring an oral complaint should be choose to do so. The law provides for it, and every magistrate of the first class is authorised by law to record such complaints. If this provision of the law was kept in abeyance, or not resorted to, the responsibility for this lay as much with the magistrates as with the complaints themselves, much more so with the former than with the latter. The preferring of an oral complaint presupposes that the aggrieved person has direct access to the magistrate and can enter into his court room without let or hindrance.