Editorial Note

We have received the £3/3/- and hold same to the credit of the “James Larkin

Review Fund,” the purpose of which will be to secure legal assistance and petition the proper authorities for a review of the verdict and the sentence imposed upon James Larkin.

We hope that other contributions—even if they are only a few shillings—will be sent in. We ourselves are glad to supple ment “Waiben’s” subscription with another of £3/3/-. If sufficient support is received, we shall form a small local committee, and immediately seek to get the machinery of appeal into motion.

We have had many letters dealing with the Larkin case; and they show that those who know James Larkin well are those who most firmly believe that he is no murderer and that he is the victim of a cruel misreading of the law. Here is a chance for them to assist their friend. The “P.I.M.” knows nothing of James Larkin beyond what appears in official records; it simply takes the view that the death of the native was an unfortunate accident and that the verdict of murder, and the consequent sentence of ten years’ hard labor, are indefensible in law and in jus tice. James Larkin committed a crime in brutally flogging an insolent native; but the crime was not murder.

James Larkin Review Fund

“Waiben,” Thursday Is. ... £3 3 0 Pacific Plantations Ltd. . . 3 3 0 Mr. M. P. Curtain, mining engineer of Victoria, returned to Australia by the Macdhui on June 18. Mr. Curtain spent 12 months on the Waria River, between New Guinea and Papua, testing a gold proposition for the Gold Stream Co. of South Australia. The company, after ex haustive tests, turned down the option which it held on the property.