MR. GLADSTONE AND THE CLAIMANT.
I The following answer has been returned ! bf Mr Gladstone to a letter addressed to him on behalf of the clahuaut :— " Dear sir, — I am in receipt of your note and sermon. I bave never -heard a more siri" gular case of a — doubtful innocent—misunderstanding than that which you appear to share respecting my relation to the Claimant. It never happened to me lo be called upon to exercise -a discretion — in any ordinary sense of the phrase— as to him at all, except once upoa a collateral point arising incidentally, and then the decision was the one more favourable to. him. What I have said of myself is, I believe, true of the whole of the j,ate^ Government, uuless you consider / this '■ statemeut to be limited by the fact that they did not take the unexampled steo of interposing to prevent the law from taking its course. I have uo more connection with this than with any other judicial sentence pron-miiced wlnle I *ms at the head of the I nwsiiry. — Your PnitliPul servant, \V. E. Gladstone, Juae 13." — Hume Paper.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 65, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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187MR. GLADSTONE AND THE CLAIMANT. Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 65, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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