Dr. Grace, M.L.C.,in England.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5578, 25 September 1889, Page 2

Dr. Grace, M.L.C.,in England.

» — Tub London correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes : — Dr (Jrace (who is staying at " The Mansions," Richmond, just now) has been delivering himself to a Star reporter on the Maybrick case. It .seems he recently met " Tay Pay" O'Connor out at dinner, mid the latter, remembering after the verdict was announced that his new acquaintance had told the party about a similar poisoning case in New Zealand, sent one of his young men to interview the doctor. The little medico was very communicative, but the reporter wisely condensed his remarks into a brief "par" about the Hall trial. He the (reporter) tells me, however, that the doctor pronounced Mrs Maybrick innocent as an unborn babe. If Maybrick had died of .arsenic it would, lie declared, have been found in his teeth, hair, liver, lights and lungs. All Englishmen were narrow-minded bigots and a New Zealand crossing-sweeper was more intelligent than an English M.P. No New Zealand jury would have found Mrs Maybrick guilty, nor would a New Zealand Judge have siiown the prejudice Mr Justice Stephen did. The glory of medicine was that it was not an exact science. Dr (.race further condescended to say that England was not a bad sort of a place, though a great deal too wet. New Zealand, however, was the country of the future. Your Anglo-Saxon opened out and blossomed when he got there, throwing off all stiff conventionalities and becoming a new man. He himself had been rather incommoded during his travels through being mistaken for another Dr (Jrace — Dr \V. (1. Grace -a celebrated cricketer, he believed.

A Mr Kitehie, of North Shore, Auuklaud, recently deceased, has left t'.'iOO to the Salvation Prison (into Brigade Houh\ It is rumored that the will will be contested by some nf the relatives.