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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 922, 22 June 1903, Page 1

The man who organised the Farmers’ Union —one Glass—has never yet been recompensed in any way for his labors. The question has again been shelved, and, as one delegate declared when the subject was mooted, “ When Glass is dead, per- I haps we may erect a monument to his memory !”—Carterton Leader. The difference in New Zealand is that the Government have no objection even to railway employees taking a prominent part in political organisations or even serving on the committee of a political candidate—providing they take the right side.—Palmerston Standard. The law is behaving strangely again in Victoria. Six years ago a Beechworth farmer took his child in his arms and jumped down a well. They fished him out alive but not the child, and he was tried for murder. Insanity was pleaded, and he was acquitted, the usual order being made that he should be confined during the Governor’s pleasure. The man’s wife had been living on the farm since then, supporting the family (six children). Lately ehe farmer, who is still in gaol, decided that he would sell the farm, and instructed a lawyer to move for a warrant to eject his wife; and the court found that it must grant the application. So the position is this: If the man is still msane the court has acted on a lunatic's application to turn his wife and family out of their home ; and if he is sane, having (as is alleged) recovered, then by being still confined he is being punished for doing something when he was insane and unaccountable for his actions. Either way the law has a good deal to answer for,