FROM SPIRIT LAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 503, 4 November 1909, Page 3

FROM SPIRIT LAND.

EXTRAORDINARY COMMU-

NICATIONS

LATE MR GLADSTONE ON THE political SITUATION.

London, November 1. At Mr W. T. Stead's desire, and through the spook at Julia’s Bureau, the late W. E. Gladstone accepted the Daily Chronicle’s request to send a special message from spirit land upon the political situation in England.

It was an extraordinary communication extending over two columns in the Daily Chronicle. According to the message Mr Gladstone thinks the Lords will act most illadvisedly if they reject the Budget, and adds that he is in agreement with the principles embodied in the Bill. Some of the licensing clauses are too crudely constructed. Respecting the House of Lords as a general question, he expressed strong antagonism to their predominance, though he favoured a second chamber. He considers Mr Lloyd George lacks steadiness and balance.

Mr Gladstone promises further communications.

The Daily Mail ridicules the Chronicle for swallowing the Gladstone Interview whole. The Chronicle disavows any responsibility regarding the Gladstone interview.

The Pali Mall Gazette assails the Chronicle for publishing “an infamous and blasphemous concoction.”

Other papers ridicule or condemn the whole transaction.