The Horowhenua Case.

Manawatu Herald, 25 November 1897, Page 2

The Horowhenua Case.

The above case 13 getting tiring to the general public, but as the Minister of Lands told members of the House a few days ago the end of it has not been yet heard. Apparently so. It pleased the Minister of Lands, after having lost the case against Sir Walter Buller, in the Supreme Court, to lay a memorandum 00 the table of the House in which statements seriously affecting 1 Sir Walter Buller's honour were made. The latter gentleman is nothing if nofc energetic and perseveriug and he quickly prepared a reply to the Minister's statements and wrote to the Right Hon. the Premier asking him in justice to himself to lay it upon the table of the House and have printed with the Minister's accusations. Unlike the general rule of the Premier, he has refused

Sir Walter Bailer's request, and says " I do not for a rrioment imagine that you seriously contemplated my complying with your request, and regret being forced to the conclusion that you have taken this course with a view to causing amusement. If done with a View to causing irritation or dissension, the device is too thin. 1 am accordingly bound to treat it as a clumsy jokei and must decline to be a party to trifling with the tlotise in respect to this matter." Debarred from getting a permanent record of his reply made in the journals of the House, Sir Walter Buller has had a pamphlet printed which he has circulatad freely, and a copy of which we beg to acknowledge, and which we shall take another appor tunity of referring to. Having read it, we think Sir Walter Buller has made a satisfactory answer to the Minister's accusations.