THE BRYCE-RUSDEN CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9064, 26 May 1888, Page 6

THE BRYCE-RUSDEN CASE.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday. In the papers laid upon the table to-day are some despatches from tho Governor to the Secretary of State, with enclosures. The Governor forwards a letter from the Hon. John Bryco to the Secretary of State, on certain points connected with the case of Bryce v. Rusdcn. Mr. Bryce, after referring to tho interpellation on his case in the Imperial Parliament, gives an historical resume of the proceedings he had taken against Mr. Rusdcn, and their issue. He goes on to review tho conduct of Sir Arthur Gordon, and Sir Arthur's action in regard to Bishop Hadtield's statements, and his communication of them to Mr. Rusden. He concludes his letter to the Secretary of State with the following passage :—" I appeal to you to consider what your servant, Sir Arthur Gordon, has done, and to judge between us. I know that he is a great man belonging to one of Britain's ruling families, and I know also that I am bub a humble colonist, but great as ho is, and humble as I am, I appeal to you in the fullest confidence that in your office you will do justice, because you are the Minister of a great and just Sovereign." The Secretary of State replies to Mr. Bryce's forcible appeal in a letter to the Governor, in which he says :—" I request that you will inform Mr. Bryce thafc having given my best attention to tho subject of his letter, I must refer him to the terms of the reply which I made to a question on the subject put to me in the House of Commons, and that I am not of opinion that the circumstances of the case are such as to require any interference on my part." So the matter ends for the present; but I understand that other steps have been aken to vindicate Mr. Bryce'rt reputation, nd to refute the assertions of his calumniators.