OREADNOUCHT WARD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 8

OREADNOUCHT WARD.

' Sir,—Wo all remember in 1909 Sir JoSepil Ward electrifying Nov Zealand by mysterious hints of gerta'ia special inside information b® bad ter garAiii.g a terrible crisis which was at tile time threatening Great Britain, and that he liad, ort liis own personal responsibility fabled at oneo offering tho Mother Counifv a Dreadnought. Now tiio Hon. F. M. I). Fisher states ' that tiierc was no special reason at that data why a battleship should have been offered to England, and .thai tliere- was no trace of any cabio or dispatch. referred is having been received by sir Joseph Ward —nothing, at any rate, in tho public, records." This is aS estra-; ordinary as it is unsatisfactory, "hero can this cablegram bo ? .fnd, as a mo;>y ■ important Government record, V.'hero should it be? If Sir/oseph Ward, as Prime' Minister of Kow Zealand, re? ceived the cablegram. in question, ho; will 'ioabtless bo glad to furnish tho required information when ho is asked tho question. Therefor® it. would bo a kindly action, when he. is speaking at: i«s various centres, to ask him to reply , ftom the public platform to Mr. lusher s statement and announce where tlio miss-; ing cablegram Can befou:i^ZZLED