GORDON'S DIARY,
Gordon's diary (says the Pall Matt Gazette) will never be published m anytlrng like it* entirety, of that we may be quite sure. We happen to have learnt something about its contents already — (it includes many pen and ink drawings of extraordinary interest) —and that something' assures us that if our Ministers can expurgate the murdered man's diary they certainly will. We are able to give one little extract from it of the kind that awaits the- pruning knife, should the Government find itself at liberty to wield that instrument. The following words appear m the diary under the date of December 14th, a fortnight before Gordon's death : —•' I can quite imagine the following scene: — Walmer Castle. Enter Lord Granville — lieads the paper, ' Khartoum still holds out' Kings the bell for secretary. ' How lon<r,did Gordon aay he could hold out for V 'Six months, my 1 >rd.' 'Then why the devil has he held out for eight?' He ought to have given np two months ago. Confound him!'"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 June 1885, Page 2
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170GORDON'S DIARY, Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 June 1885, Page 2
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