MR BRYCE AND SIR A. GORDON.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7215, 28 November 1888, Page 5

MR BRYCE AND SIR A. GORDON.

COEKESPONDENCE Wlffl THJsJ ... ; CQUOIAL Gjb&E, [PBBSS AHSOCIADIDN TKi.KBBAM.} ' ';,:'" ■ Novemberil : The? correspondence which pasted, be? tween the !Bon. John Bryde and ' the Colcaual Office, in connection, with his libel action against Mr Eusden, and id which he britogß beibre the Home authorities ; Sir Arthur Gordon' 4 teeatanent of hirny has been published; The of the, cor&spondence treats on matters already published, hut the. fOllo-wing letter from Lord-Knutsferd, .-to Sir Iff JervOTs aaS datedjlfctj ; AegnefeieSS,; is of; interest --t.;..' ■•• hare thehonor to acknowledge the re<*eip€ of y&ttr dispatch, K'd. 29, of the 26th March laa,t, fbrwardiflg- a niein'6 fH>fal the fteniiet' eo¥eriiig ft -&»itiintinifca#Q addressed ttl hini by.; iii. ; X, 'B'ij'ee with reference to my dispatch of 15th August last, on the.eubject of the case Bryeet Kufiden; (2) I have carefully eonaideted the: representations of your Ministers and, I have read with - ibferest the i>ass»feeS Ib Whibh thejr ■■• ref6l? in the "report of '.tHe actioif firyoe 'vftiasSenl "Cbe pbierVatibtid the conn ael engaged iQ the case, necessarily be taken as impartial, and it is to be noticed that; throughout his reference to Sir A. Gordon, the prasidiag judge cast no : ceas ure upon the Ghivetbqr. I fully ac <e#pt, however, , the proposition of yonr SKnSt€irs''thaLi; the . CrdVernor , sfiduld cdii;?iitod thie indicijafldtSnce , of the ;|je6p"le of ike colbnjr wJiich lie presides, and the inferencej would indeed be groandleaa that her. Majesty's. Government are eateiesS -of the maintenance, of. the cor dial relations 1 between. the Motker Gountfy Mβ the" &>lohiee because Sil' A. Gortlon id now-ehiployed at a great distance froni NeVfciealand ii another (S.) t desirß to my sympattiy Mr firyoe,' and at finding that he has bo entirely., cleared: his character from the painful charges brought againefc him. and 1 wish it to toe fully understood that hei 1 Majesty's Ooverament have not, as is apparently supposed, it ! • • Shy stage expresaed^"',~ approxcal of the conduct Of 'Sir * Arthar Gordon in tKii ' Matte? '. ' Hi) ft has' thrbugnout fceeii' felt .course : taien by Mr Bryoe for the ; of disproving, the imputations which had been made against himy was the right one-, and that it would have been irreg-ular for. her Majesty's (icvernmebt to inquire into the Unofficial : acte of a p*rs6n who had not- bee A made a pfttty iii I Ab hot" think, .theretiiat aby.'gpdd Would "fesulf from niy how expressing , an official opiniob on acts which were done so long ago as 1882 by the then Governor, and which in 18SC were brought under the notice of a Court of Law. 1 am the more oonflrmed in thii view by the fact that one of tty sots; who had the.snbjece fully before hint *hile it wai Mil recent, did not tfiink'it necessary to take any action in the matter. (S) In these circuinstancee I must adhere 'to the decision which I announced in the House of GommpnS in August last."