"PUFF" ON THE "DILKE" BUSINESS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11127, 12 February 1886, Page 2

"PUFF" ON THE " DILKE " BUSINESS.

Is'n't that a comical notion 1 ; the disp osal of the office of Secretary of State" for Foreign affairs being made cpntin* „ 1 gent on 'the result of .a divoroe suit ? : It's yery odd that the fact— -if it M£ " fact— should hare been allowed to be v" nome public! _:.. • It's rather a momentous : issue to !. put to a jury, thus : —^ If you find a verdict against the corespondent, *he. he will only hare to pay such damages. . as you award, but he will als> logs' one of the highest places in the Cabinet, and . t t his public career and private character" will be blasted!" ..•/<;/.. Yes, but there's another way of pafc» ting it, thus :— " If you decide that thero is no ground foe a divorces o* at all events that the co •« respondent had. '>/ nothing to do witfi it, he will be madeSecretary of Stito for Foreign Affairs, and being a man of great energy i and ability, he will m*ke\3reat Britain re*, spected abroad, and do mighty things for his couatry ! " ■;■ .■ ■-"■>;. From that poiat of view, I should, say it is lucky for him that the political 'igfti© is mixed up with the legal or. social issue 'I ' , * a ;."■?'/'-•.. Mr Crawford, tb© aggri^yed- Sud'^ band, is in the new Parliament. U U6 ' not ? .. - Funny complications altogether! ■ The colonies are rat'ner particularly interested in the thing, because if the verdict .on Wednesday is favourable to Sir Charles Dillce, and he joins the - Cabinet, Lord Roseberry will become Secretary of State for the Colonies, and he is really a friend to the colonies I ~ " : ! Then we are all to pray for a verdict ! for the respondent ! • All that we are interested in, is Sic- .■ Charles Dilke being able to clear himself of any culpability in the aff ur ! The best thing would be for it to torn out that Mrs Grawfoid had been off her head, aud that in reality all the person*' concerned had behaved with strict pro* '• pnety 1 c ' Yes, and that's not unlikely, either f. . Home women have very strante de^- 'I lusions I— Wellington Press. TV*