REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 522, 19 February 1876, Page 2

REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, — One of your correspondents has observed that the Minister of Justice (or rather injustice) has the hide of a rhinoceros. I trust he will find that the public have the teeth of a lion, and that tough as his skin may be he will yet be made to feel. Now, Mr Editor, there must be some way of bringing this obstructive individual to his senses, if his sudden elevation has not driven them all out of his cranium. It is a pretty state of things if a M inister in this colony may set pubbc opinion at defiance. It is perhaps more than can be expected from Mr Bowen’s eai-ly training that he would have very refined feelings, for certainly the occution of a policeman is not the best school to learn acuteness of sensation. Under these circumstances some may say there is excuse to be made. If so it is an instance to satisfy one how cautious the public ought to be as to who they elect to represent them, for although a mere member of the House of Representatives may be able to do but little harm, we know not how soon he may be placed in power, as a member of the Ministry. What is most disgusting in this matter is the inordinate conceit of this newly fledged politician. It reminds one of the saying “Put a monkey on horseback and where will he ride to ? ”

There is something dreadfully mean in Mr Bowen’s acting. He conducts himself with propriety until the election is over, and then immediately shows the cloven foot. If it were not that the public are suffering by what has been done, and what is being continued, the matter, so far as Mr Bowen is concerned, would be unworthy of notice. Indeed, he has made himself in the eyes of the public quite contemptible, and the only way to deal with him is (as one would with ■a naughty schoolboy), have him well whipped with that rod which your corespondent sayjs

is in pickle for him, turn him out and send him to bed without his supper, or in other words, his salary. At all events, Mr Editor, we will congratulate ourselves that some good may come out of evil. We shall know this highly conscientious gentleman better in future, and should he make his appearance before the electors again, know how to treat him. Yours, &c, W. F.