Late in the day, papers arrive after incident at The Point (8)
I believe the answer is:
eventide
'late in the day' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'after incident at the point' is the wordplay.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'incident' becomes 'event' (I've seen this before).
'at' becomes 'id' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the point' becomes 'e' (E is an example).
'event'+'id' is 'eventid'.
'eventid'+'e'='EVENTIDE'
'papers arrive' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eventide that I've seen before include "latter part of the day" , "The day's close (poetic)" , "End of the day to the poet" , "late in the day?" , "some time later?" .)