MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7352, 21 July 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

MH LYNCH AND HIS SEAT. Mr Arthur Lynch forwardad from Parh a letter to the Speaker of the Hcnse of Commons, in which ho announoed Un intention to return to England nt an early date, in older to prwent hunwlf at the Honee o£ Commons, and to undertake the dnties which have been imposed on him by his election for Galway. " I have /aited." he says, "for the condwion oi the South African war, as I thought it right to refrain from ■«»y..£ tOT.PJ,; J J? enter the House while ft matter which had excited »uch deep feelings was^BtiU. undecided, Inm aware that mr action ; in South Africa has been brought under the notice of the lftw. In how farlmay have overstepped the boundr of. legality must be left to the proper Wbunar to. determine, but when , I look .into Stives and examine m"? Bentl^ cr* j | knoW+w no base feelings impelled me.; SympathSK^itii the Boers -in. their struggle for !Mcpondence was mo, in many quarters, anaHh,q feeling earned, nio farther thnn othcr»>*4.new era has dawned on the British Eminnvand it is tlio hope of all, no doubt, that tiie-^nro may bo brighter,. A certain amncatfW; already covered up many ottho acts of tt£S»r past. lAd .lta»B" J* th a fthi»amnoßiy would be general. Bo tLat na it may, Ivriakto place myself at your scmce. I had toped that! would prove mysolt no.tuiworthy member of the House of Commens j that I thwe.couW work at all those gr#it.iiatjonal, industrial and educational'questions upon whiol, the fatnre xo£ ~^e i vßrituh dominions depends, and that wiwi me assurance of helping in the solution ot the problcmi of Ireland I couldsay .in a more modern spirit .than :;ihat>. of Tliemntoclcf, to'those members of: the . Jleiige wlio were hostile to mo i. 'P° no' t s^triVf nic, but hear inc.* " ir \-?