LYING CABLES.
A few days ago we referred fo d lie extraordinary cablegrams sent, ironi blew Zealand to tiie London Times, alienl labor matters. The exaggerations were calculated to do the colony harm, but, they were bached up with astonishing impudence. Now, another gem has come under notice, lit this case the cable lias been sent on from London to America, and is taken from the leading American paper. The message is as foaows : ■‘Balfour notified to make Ins home 'll New Zealand. —London, April 11. Prime Minister Balfour bought in
New Zealand manv years ago property which has become very valuable But a law against absentee, landlords is being enforced, under which residents have the right to buy such property at the Government valuation, and Mr Balfour has been no tilled by Premier Seddon that he must either take ii]i his permanent residence on his New Zealand estate within six months, or it will he sold/' There is no doubt, some cleverness about Jie man who invented this remarkable pack of lies. They are so ingeniously strung together that it would bo little wonder it they were believed !>v thousands of people. The cable from London has the imprimatur of the Press Publishing Comprny, an important news-gathering association which sends the same message to .hundreds of papers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2
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218LYING CABLES. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2
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