HIS COSTLY BODY-GUARD. Precautions of Sir William Haroourt Against Assassination.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 2

HIS COSTLY BODY-G UARD. Precautions of Sir William Haroourt Against Assassination.

Mr Edmund Yates cables to the New York " World '.' : — ".Among the few consolations Sir William • Harcoinii am find in his present abject condition as the avowed friend and ally of Irish patriots, his emancipation from constant uneasiness as to Iris personal safety must rank high. It is not so long" since he went in torrdr of his life from the men he now champions, and was the best a,ntl most expensively protected public servant. in the Kingdom. I wish some inquiring economist in the House would ask what it cobt to shield Sir William. Harcourt from, possible' harm in the day when he was Home Secretary. • I . have .it on igood' < authority that nearly a Fcore -of constables' hi' and out'of. uniform were ■ regularity' employed off andj on at C4raf ton-street I 'and elsewhere. -'This 1 whole proteotive'mnchinery must' 1 have cost t something like a couple iof thousand pounds' a 1 year. It might .also be Hvorth. while toask whether another prominent politician, who favours Home Rule, even now asks for police proteetioa. ]