The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 8, 1910. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 915, 8 November 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 8, 1910. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A recent arrival from Australia, now resident in Foxton waited on us one day last week in reference to the cabled item in reference to Peter Bowling’s acceptance of an invitation to visit New Zealand and deliver addresses under the auspices of the various labour Unions. According to our informant “Peter” is not deserving of a high pedestal in the ranks of labour and no doubt if Mr Bowling should include Foxton in his itinerary a very interesting korero should take place. Apropos of the New South Wales Labour Government's release of Peter Bowling, the Sydney Morning Herald says:—“No doubt there are still many people who think that Bowling was the victim of the ‘ Coercion Act,’and others who think that his imprisonment had at least something to do with the Industrial Disputes Act. The facts, of course, are that Bowling was charged on a criminal charge before an ordinary jury. The ordinary jury found him guilty, and the ordinary judge sentenced him to a short term of imprisonment, tempering justice with mercy. One of the favourite Labour charges for the past few months has been that about Mr Wade’s abolition of trial by jury. It is the irony of fate that Mr McGowen’s first administrative act has been to abolish trial by jury in the case of Bowling, and to substitute ‘ political ’ justice for ths law of the land.”