Writing on the subject of judicial ' precedence claimed by the Mayor at ! Gore, the Post says : — In this country, • however, it is a mere figure of speech to i speak of a Mayor as' the Chief Magistrate of a borough. The law makes him ( % Justice of the Peace for the colony, ' but it confers on him no judicial precedjnce whatever. He has as a Magistrate 4 so greater authority within the borough shan in any other part of the colony. If ] ie is allowed to preside on the Benoh it i j 8 only by the courtesy of the other Jus- £ ices, who not being merely ex officio 1 Magistrates, are almost always senior to a lie Mayor. i
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 2
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119Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 2
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