A Troublesome Judge.
(Per Press Association.) Gisbokne, March 7. Judge Barton, of the Validation Court read to the Gisborne bar the correspondence between himself and Crovcrumcnt, in which he complained that they had made stoppages from his pay m such a manner as to interfere with his jmliI cial independance and that .he refused to sit as a judge undeK such conditions. The judge stated that on February 2itlt Goverument undertook to reply to bis remonstrauces in a day or two but bad failed to do so. In his statement he alleges breaches o£ faith with him by the Native Minister, which breaches, he said, could be proved by letters of Mr Carroll's in which that gentlemen undertook that unless faith was kept he would leave the Ministry.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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128A Troublesome Judge. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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