ATTACK ON JUDGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1464, 26 May 1905, Page 2

ATTACK ON JUDGES.

PETTY BEHAVIOR OH FEDEBAD GOVERNMENT 7* ~

By Electric Telegraph l —Per Press Association—Copyright.

'SYDNEY, May, 25, a Mr Reid expresses profound regrejr at the position the High Court has taken“ti,i>. He regards it as a public: cal amity.

He isi certain that' if the Chie£ Justice would.' address a letter tp the Attorney-General., containing tho particulars contained in the telegram: to Mr Reid, but couched in the ordinary form of official correspondence, and would asth him to submit*’’ the matter to tho consideration of the Government, the result* would be satisfactory; to, all parties'. • ADELAIDE, May, 25. . The Attorney-General, in an terview, traversed the Chief 'Justice’s statement. He produced corr-espo ndnnce from a member of the High! Court to shop? that in several respects the statement was misleading. He knew nothing in! the statement to justify oq palliate tho refusal, uf the jn'dges to Ho their duty. •' He complains of being ignored. If the judges had felt strongly and had told him, and requested ham to consider the propriety of a fixed allowance, it would gladly have beeii done ; and so, if they thought their views on these rather sordid matters right, and his as head of the Department wrong, the dignified constitutional course would have irein to forward a statement to him for submission to the Executive.