The Daily Mail says: The action of Lord Gladstone in reprieving a native sentenced to death for an assault on a white woman in Rhodesia is the most dangerous exercise of the prerogative with which the representative of the Crown in South Africa is invested. The only excuse that can be found is that he has not yet learned the conditions of life in the country of which he is Governor-General.
On no other ground is it possible to imagine that he would have been guilty of the serious indiscretion which deprives us of one of the safeguards of white women in a black country. If he has been moved by reasons of humanity, the sooner he is made to understand that what may be humanity in Great Britain is inhumanity in South Africa, the better will it be for the peace of South Africa and for his own reputation.
The Irish Times, January 25th, 1911