THE MAUNGATUROTO CASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12000, 24 June 1902, Page 7

THE MAUNGATUROTO CASE

Sir S« f T° TH « EDITOa. serve'.Tio ono r -* ha bee » able to ob " to disprove th? *"' yet S °" sly attempted Fowld, a nrf «Tv RraVe a,le ffations of Mr. Played hv th h p S *«*»«*% the bias disthS ill„ , B ? nch at Helensville; aldraw th al , r *? re ' have endeavoured to SiS r ftl red herring across the prietv „f l^P ut , atl< ? n3 concerning the pro?<3f«L? n intro L l l ucin ß &* object before a Mr g Fo w l ( rH n,bly ' P d also h ? attacking SsT„7iltfe r h y h,s opinions concernin * WMTSl thlt Whether the circumstance fore tl, I ? r ne ? r not t0 bo brought beIZJ & c Urc } m is a point which the respeetive churches themselves have- the best St detemiM ', Neither «3 the singlehv M I ° i , any ? thf!r political doctrine held matt e slightest elation to the

Allegations have been made by men of responsibility which, if false, will certainly entail upon them serious . penalties, and therefore it is most unlikely that those men are not well assured of the ground upon which they stand. 1 ilf i' 1 ? Bench bo innocent then nono should be moro eager for a Parliamentary inquiry than itself and its friends; indeed, to act otherwise is tantamount to an implied confession of guilt. The purity of the Bench is a subject which affects in the most solemn and vital manner every person in P\ew_ Zealand. To attempt to suppress that inquiry which the case so forcibly demands "to stab the freedom of elections, to nullify the Legislature of the country, to drown the public voice, to stifle the cry of justice at its own bar, _to forge tho ' shackles 'of slavery upon this free community.— am, etc -> Charles Hardy. Mount Albert, June 21, 1902.