POLITICAL NOTES.
ANONYMOUS LETTERS. '(Special to Gisborne Times.) Wellington, Saturday.
The subject of anonymous letters cropped up in , the House, and the Premier took occasion to express his opinion of tho writers of such communications in vigorous terms “ If,” hesaid, “ there are cowards inthe world they are those who send anonymous letters. Iu my opinion they are worse than assasins. I have seen scores of them in. my time, and I have the greatest abhorrence of the villains and reptiles who endeavor to shield th mselves in writing anonymous letters to public men about someone else. I have had sto es of these letters reflecting on officers in different parts of tho colony sent to mo by persons who, 0.3 I say, are iu my opinion worse than assassins. Tho writing of these letters is about as vile a thing as any man can do.” The Premier spoko with considerable feeling, and his remarks were greeted with general expressions of approval from members. The subject cropped up in the courso of a discussion regarding the case of a late official of the , postal department who had been con- ; cerned in the writing of a letter under an assumed namo,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 187, 8 October 1906, Page 3
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