MEIKLE AND THE PREMIER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 7

MEIKLE AND THE PREMIER.

Mr J. J. Meikle has forwarded the following letter to the Premier respecting the attitude "of Sir Joseph Ward in regard to the Meikle Acquittal Bill To the Right Hon. Sir J. G.Ward, Premier. Sir, —I have been very much disappointed at the fine promises you made to the deputation of the citizens of the City of Wellington. The people believed that you were sincere to see that I got justice. You, sir, stated that I got a fair trial. You, sir, must know better. The six Government supporters who stonewalled the bill will have to answer for their conduct before long. You, .sir, stated to-day that other M.H R.'s wanted a general measure. No doubt you have fooled me very nicely. I got no justice from the late Mr Seddon, and it appears that the same treatment is going to be meted out to me by you. The matter has been well planned to prevent me from getting justice. However, 1 will have fresh sandwich boards painted about justice in the new dominion, and 1 will lecture in the large centres here and in the Commonwealth, and proceed to the Mother Cnuntry and let the people know what may happen to any man in New Zealand, through corrupt legislation. It is two years last month the late Mr Seddon set up a Royal Commission for his son, and Parliament carried out the report of that Commission in six weeks. It is twenty years to-day since I was arrested, and twenty years last Sunday since the late Arthur Meikle was arrested, and yet justice is delayed in God's Own Com> try.—l am, etc., J. J. MEIKLE, THE VICTIM.