THE DEATH PENALTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14589, 27 January 1911, Page 5

THE DEATH PENALTY.

OFFENCES AGAINST WHITE WOMEN.

LAW FOR THE BLACK MAN.

LORD GLADSTONE'S ACTION.

By Telegraph.— Association. —Copyright,

(Received January 26, 10 p.m.)

Capetown, January 26. The action of Lord Gladstone (the Governor-General) in reprieving a native sentenced to death at Buluwayo for assaulting a white woman is provoking much discussion. • The Johannesburg Star says that the native confessed to rape, and the judge said he was unable to hold out any hope of reprieve. The information available to the public does not disclose palliating circumstances.

The Rhodesian law provides for the death penalty in the case of a native convicted of an attempt alone.

The papers state that Lord Gladstone has failed to appreciate the conditions of the country.

ADVICE TO THE WOMEN.

"LOCK UP YOUR ROOMS."

London, January 25.

The Buluwayo correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that popular anger against the Governor-General is accentuated by the publication of Lord Gladstone's private letter to a Rhodesian official, stating that it is time Rhodesian women learned to lock their doors and windows at night.

A message, published yesterday, said that the whole male population of Buluwayo met and protested against Lord Gladstone reprieving a native sentenced to death for assaulting a white woman. One speaker pointed out that if Lord Gladstone assumed that South African conditions were the same as those of England he must be brought to a proper appreciation of the facte, otherwise the whites would take the law into their own hands.