THE KNYVETT CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10033, 2 May 1910, Page 4

THE KNYVETT CASE.

It is evident that the last has not been heard of the Knyvett case. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that a crowded meeting of ladies has been held, and in order to provide the necessary funds to enable the facts of the case to be put before the whole of the Dominion, the ladies decided to take up a street collection on Saturday next. Mr C. H. Poole, M.P., who, by the thought was a Government supporter, and other i speakers, laid stress on th° fact that they were fighting in the hope that justice would be filially meted out to ex-Captain Knyvett, and the ladies decided that "Justice" should be their watchword; and the telegram adds that the badges, which will be | worn by the collectors, will have that | word printed on them. There is [trouble now! Cabinet may have screwed up sufficient backbone to deal firmly with one or two deputations composed of mere males, but Ministers who will not quail before the attack of the ladies of Auckland will have to be of rare courage. So the facts of the case are to be put before the whole Dominion! This is a fairly large undertaking, but if the friends of Knyvett are numerous enough, and work sufficiently bard, ; they may arouse as much interest in their man as was evinced in "L'affaire Dreyfus." Hitherto it ha 3 seemed to us that the Governmetit adopted a proper course in regard to Knyvett, but maybe there are facts which have not yet come to light, and of which the whole of the Dominion should be made aware. It is certainly remarkable that a large city like Auckland should fee >:o indignant over the affair, and so determined to secure what it claims to be justice ior a man allegedly victimised. | Ths Government canr.ot very well recede irom the stand that it has taken up; to do so would be to appear ridiculous and worse. We may, therefore, expect that the Knyvett case will assume several interesting i phases before it is all over.