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NZ Truth, Issue 151, 9 May 1908, Page 7

. however, that they had achieved their object. < * * * I One of the malodorous matters m con- j nection with the Quarry Bank iniquity j was the mysterious disappearance of certain copies of a map— the map of-Pen-sett Chase. This Chase had been enclosed by Act of Parliament "when George the Third was King." and, by virtue of. this Act, the Dudleys— or, rather, Wards—got, it is alleged, tbe legal right over everything below the surface of the Chase. Provision was made that a copy of the map of the Chase should be deposited m Kincswinford parish church and another m the Westminster Court of Records. Shortly after Lord Dudley began the ruin of Quarry Bank, searches were made for these copies, but they had both disappeared. Although the index at Westminster contained a reference to a copy, the copy itself could not be found : the only map of the Pensett Chase m existence was m possession of Lord Dudley himself. The townsmen, who indignantly resented Lord Dudley's, doings, desired to see a copy of the tnnn ; but— Lord Dudley was master of the ""■•"+ion. The matter was placed before tbe British House of Commons by Mr Brynmor-Jones, Q.C., M.P., but —Lord Dudley remained master of the situation. * * * This, then, is the new idol that "Himperialists" are holding up for our admiration ! This Dudley the Devastator— whose own town of Dudley 1 some of the worst cottage property m England — is the man whom fawners, flatterers, and flunkeys would fain deceive us into the •irarding as an enlightened, benevolent, public-spirited Lord of the Manor ! This is the man who has been commended to Australian.* as an alleged Home Ruler ! What • Has this home-wrecker the hardihood to call himself a Home Ruler ? God preserve the patriotic peasantry of Ireland from the sort of Home Rule that they wodld be likely to Ret from Lord Dudley '. Such as he is just the sort of man that we might expect to he sent to us by a Government composed of Assassin Asquith of miners at Fentherstqne) , Butcher Birrell (slater or Belfast men, women, and children>. Traitor Tweedmouth (secret intriguer with a foreign despot. Loose-lip Lloyd Geoiße (woweristic slanderer of working men); Jack Bra<£ Burns (who pcddaled his putrid "principles" for place and pay), and other carrion crows or cliquism. The Governor-Gcucral Designate may suit lick-platters, lick-trenchers, and lick-spittles — he may suit toadies, toadeaters, and tuft-hunters— but he will not suit the Democracy of the Australian : Commonwealth. I