The 'Times'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 27 February 1908, Page 9

The 'Times'

English capitalists and American capitalists are just now locked in a tug-of-war for the possession of the London ' Times '—all that is left of it. For the * Thunderer ' has fallen far from its former high estate of wealth and prestige. It has never recovered from the reeling blow delivered to it by the Commission of incfuiry into its allegations against Charles Stewart 1 Pamell. The Pigott forgeries were meant to be a death-blow to the corporate honor of the Irish Parliamentary Party. They acted, instead, like Trumbull's muskets, which so contrive it 1 As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed . at duck or plover, Bear wide, and kick their owners over '.