THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 803, 27 November 1882, Page 2

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT.

Now that the claimant’s term of imprisonment is drawing to a close (says the Home Neivs) his few remaining friends are beginning to agitate in his favor. It is pretty certain that nothing will induce the authorities to shorten his sentence, and that he will have, to stay in Portsmouth convict prison to the bitter end. Yet there are sanguine people who still hope to obtain evidence which will re-establish him in public opinion if not entirely restore him to his so-called rights. Great stress is still laid upon the other Arthur Orton supposed to have been discovered in Australia arid at this moment an inmate of Parramatta Asylum. A special commission of enquiry is to be sent out to Australia to verity this fact, and on the strength of the evidence taken, which is somewhat prematurely assumed to be conclusive, public meetings are to be held in this country to put the poqs claimant right. For this it will only be necessary to obtain a special Act of Parliament. Meanwhile, Orton continues to stack bricks in Portsmouth and lose flesh. His original - tWdbtyjfour stone has already been reduced to eleven, but he is in the best possjhik health, thanks to wholesome linsitations of his diet in prison. He only yearns for the day of his release, not because it will restore his rights, but from the pleasing prospect of owning a publichouse called the Tichborne Arms in the neighborhood of the Gun Club on Wormwood Scrubs. _