SIR WALTER BULLER AND THE MINISTER OF LANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10033, 21 January 1896, Page 5

SIR WALTER BULLER AND THE MINISTER OF LANDS.

HISTORY OF THE BREACH OP PRIVILEGE CASE.

[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] Wellington, Monday. Under the title of "Sir Walter Buller at the Bar of the House, and the History of the Horowhenua Block," the Evening Post has published a pamphlet of 26 pages containing a full account of the recent broach of privilege question. The brochure, which is very neatly got up, opens with an introduction by Sir Walter Buller, briof and to the point, and then gives the speech and examination at the bar of the House of Representatives at the evening sitting of October 28th reprinted from Hansard, and winds up with a condensed newspaper narrative of the proceedings and a selection of the comments and opinions of the press from all parts of the colony. The introduction commences thus: —'' Every man, whatever his station in life, owes ib as a first duty, not only to his immediate friends, hie family, and himself, bub to the community in which he lives and to society at large, that he should keep hi? fair name unsullied, and refute by every means in his power, and at any cost, all aspersions on his character. I feel that in my own case I owe a further duty to the honourable profession to which I belong, to the Royal Society of which 1 am a fellow, and to the noble and distinguished Order of Knighthood to which my Sovereign has graciously called me. Under these circumstance? no apology is needed for reprinting for circulation in pamphlet form the defence which I was permitted to make at the bar of the House on Monday evening, October 23, in order thereby to secure for ib a wider publicity than it would otherwise command. A few explanatory words, liowoyor, may not be out of placo so as to make the position perfectly clear to those who may not havo followed the history of the case." The final paragraph is as follows: In conclusion 1 have only to say that I shall ever gratefully remember the kjnd expressions of sympathy which reached me by letter and by telegram from all parte of the colony, arid that I shall always honour the Now Zealand press generally for tl)e manner in which, from ap instinctive sense of fairplay, and without distinction of party, it phampioned my cause and condemned the cowardly conduct of the Minister." I understand that two thousand copies of this pamphlet have been struck off; for private circulation, and' as Sir Walter's address appears in the six thousand copies of Hansard published by the Government, Ins refutation of Mr. MeKenzie's statements Will hav? a pretty yrido circulation.