KING'S COUNSEL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1597, 14 November 1912, Page 6

KING'S COUNSEL.

■'■ Sift—As-a supporter of the present 'Government I wbuld'.only raluetantly fifld' fault with their appointaent of KiG.'s, but if this title fc-ijo mean anytmns the. ■public ought to be made to recoipisa what it is which, entitles the recipients being- distinguished fMm tllSir Miwrs. Wo have Sir...Stafford., who..did good, work as Parliamentary drnuehtsman, and is a safe counsellor also; Jfo 1. Martin, Mr. Meiiteath, and nmems otlters whom I might mention., last Ijutnot loast, Mr. T. W. Sislop, who has lx«ii. snocsssful in every branch, and has held high, offira imS in oVery office distinguished himself iil a hifsh degree. It :is Tomaffc. tthle thai every recipient in,Jtms' cim except, perhaps, the Soliciter-efffliQrtl, has made himself' aßreesvble to the poweti that l>o. Mr. XV. K D- Bel! frieft to;) Bho* that the extra appointment* in. AVelf' iiußtoh were justified when it ivns mentioned itai: there was only one , in Christ cjivifeh: Why did ho not explain whT, if that wae a- valid renifrii, lor there only beiiiK one in Christchurch ? Why it was ' ttot also ft giiosl .reason for ; not m.iJtintt two apiiDinlmonts in Auolaartd wliere there are already two?—l am, dtc,. A.J.K&vember 12; ■