KANAKA LABOUR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2960, 29 April 1893, Page 2

KANAKA LABOUR.

London, April 27. The Bishop of Tasmania, writing in the " New Review." says that the Kanakas understand that recruiting is voluntary and are anxious to hire themselves out LIBEL ACTION. Colonel Hughes Hallet, formerly M.P. for Rochester, is sueing the "Weekly Times " for libel for bracketing him with Sir Charles Dilke's immorality. Hallett's name was connected with the unsavoury scandal. a dangerous lunatic. A man arrested for firing a pistol in St James's Park at midnight alleged that he was " shadowing " the Queen and Mr Gladstone. He proved to be a man named William Henry Townsend, who had also been firing a pistol in Downing street, the official residence of the Premier. A pocket book was found on him containing incoherent entries about shooting Mr Gladstona and the Home Rule Bill. He was brought up at Bow Btreet and remanded. Townsend lived for seven years in Sydney. The charge preferred against him, of intent to shoot Mr Gladstone, rests upon rambling memoranda found in his possession, that the speeches of Colonel Saunderson and Sir H. James on the Home Rule Bill justified homicide. THE IMPRISONED DUCHESS. Mr Asquith, Home Secretary, in the House of Commons denied that the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, who was committed to prison for contempt of court, was allowed unusual privileges.