Attitude of the Minister of Justice.
TheMinißter of Juatioo turns a deaf ear to all requests for miommtion as to the details of confession* paid to have been made by the Great Barrier murderer-?. He says nothing can bo divulged until the matter has been pubmitted to the Governor.
The "Post" Demands a CaMaot Meeting. Ministers are again takeu to task by tha Wellington "Poet!" for their wanderings from the centre of Government. thi« time in urging that a full meeting of Cabinet* should b« heM to consider tho racommenda* tion to uutrcy iv the Threat Barrier murder case. It, gays : " Cannot the Premier abandon his undignified theological con« troverey through the newppipera with Bishop Moran ? Cannot, Sir Julius Vogel be content for the preaent with what benefit he has derived from the Waiwera waters?' Cannot Mr Ballance leave to the officers of his department matters of local detail regarding which hia personal int3rferenco ie more likely to produce coufaeioo than anything else? And cannot Mr Richardson, now tbafc he has turned the first} sod of the railway, return here, so that all may meet to cont?ider in conjunction w irh HerMajoaty'fl representative the fate of tha two miser^ able convicts who lie in Mount Eden Gaol awaiting their fate. Common decency demands a full meeting of the Executive to consider thin matter. If »c i* leifc to a bow quorum of Minietars to consider tho 04minietratinn of justice, thi? colony vs'ill bo brought into deserved contempt "-Auckland Stai\' X
• To titk Public— l, the undesigned, do IWtoj day make the following sft .teinenc, in hopes thai? others who havo gone throue-h a similar aftUction may profit thereby :~For many aionlhss havo 1 bt>on siok ; so bad that life was a. burdoru The mental depression awl physical prostration, wore some' hing that, cannot be described. Uoo-> tors and patent medicines I have tried without^, any rolior, but getting worse all the time. ■ c^. forlorn hopo I callod on lip, Speor," Palmpy^wto Buildings, Quoen-strcot. H» examined' nidi W(% without asking a question, gave mo ©V^jj? symptom I luwl. Said he v/ould treat me. > S^onb, tho first teaspoonfwl of his medicine I felt iw/ " and have been" constantly getting hotter ev<# bincej Words cannot eicpreiss my grfttitwlei l The aboVo statement I mitke wU?»o\tl solicitation, and I am willing to vorifyiUlie sam© before a J.P.— Respectfully yours, R» ADAMs^ 91iarlotto-strect, Eueu Tevac«j«
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 5
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400Attitude of the Minister of Justice. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 5
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