JABEZ SPENCER BALFOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4808, 25 August 1894, Page 2

JABEZ SPENCER BALFOUR.

] The case of this celebrated manipu- .- later of the Liberator group is likely ] to bocomo as famous as Dickons' 1 Jaradyco verm Jarndyce, says tho I Tim of Argentina, and promises to ! rival its duration in Court. The a Salta Federal Judge, after having carefully weighed theevidonco before ~ him, digested the Extradition treaty, • pondered upon tho absurdities of s prosecuting a harmless individual II and sympathising with the over- ' strained feelings of a musically inj clinedwould-bo female partner of an s ex-M.P.aud Mayor,baswiwefy come to the following conclusion which i with a firm hand and judil cial conscience has been affixed to j the brief—British Government v 5 Jabez Spencer Balfour:— 1 "In order the better to pass soni "tence, let tho Minister for Foreign ' "Affairs be wind to for a certified , "copy of the Knglisli law dealing : " \yjth the statutes of limitations and i "of {he law dealing witji the penal- ; "ties on tho charges broughtfor- " ward against the'prisoner. Possibly, tho Minister for Foreign Affairs will roply to thp Judge to address Jiinjsejf to the 'Minister of Justice, and an incident may therefrom arise, requiring several months to solve.Tlie application,will nodoubt, in the course of timo, be made to the Minister of Justice, who, in turn, will v make request to his ■ colleague of Foreign . Affairs, who being unable to furnish the data will solicit the information from the Argentine Minister in Lon- ' don, unless tho Minister of Justice > should consider the judge's application infra dig, and request him to i apply through the proper channel, i the Supreme Court, in which case, I two incidents mightarise by the. tiny? ' the matter has gone through tno oiV I cumlocutiou office, Balfour may have becomo'a respectable and progressive ] member',of §a|to socie^'anclthe British""'. government; mayjbejoft.tp 1 meditate on the advantages of extra- I dition treaties, : as carried out by en- 1 JiglitonedSoutaAmeWcanjudioatm-e, «