New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1877.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4951, 3 February 1877, Page 2

New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1877.

It' was with much satisfabtibii iihat' some time ago. we .noticed the announcement that his Honor Mr. Justice', Richmond was to be fixed permanently at Wellington. - Our satisfaction in .this .matter has several sources. ' In thp first place it is very-gratifying that a gentleman of such high .personal and. professional'character ,as Judge Richmond shc>iild. .l)e settled among us. Besides his merely legal, attainments, Mr. Justice -Richmond possesses, it-is well-known, .many and various accomplishments of * a’'"different sort. Considering the necessarily “ high social position which a Judge fills,’- it.is always satisfactory to know that the incumbent bf that, office fulfills; ;eyien"'what may be called, the incidental ( and(‘collateral requirements in the possible. But it is not on this ground singly, ot chiefly, that we welcome a second Judge on his taking-up his permanent residence among -us.-- On-.several' grounds it has ' been for long considered), highly desirable that the.. Supreme Court at Wellington should be represented -by at least two gentlemen. To' 1 go -no deeper into the matter, anyone ..can' see how exceedingly, ,it ’, must, be that a . should. .while' the Judge is absent on/circuit at . Napier .or Wanganui. Now./ that there are two, nothing would-seem-to^be-^asier-than so to arrange theOciycjiits,.' that at ‘ all. times one. Judge shall be -af Wellington. f The point, however; ,whii?h ,we regard chiefly with pleasure ‘ Ik; that, the, arrangement which we here notice seems to betoken on the part of the Government an intention to break in upon, iwhat has been termed not inaptly’ the t'-'.enerhorse”) system-in our judicature;/ .iWe hope we are correct in*drawing this inference from 1 the arpartial change of a a.coipplete;change,ojiSystem;,, journal has for .consistently; but'. diapassionately.i, condemned ,the .absurdity!, inconvenient®,and , even’;, danger ofthe plan .’Hithertots'tSbsifiting. This scheme 1 , like so many other things in New Zea‘ianrd, was:thb“°Htcome;"of the" severance, i parts of colony,; ,an 4 .ii9W„ that,.this ; eyU.,root;pf ; so' ifiany bad “things is rapidly it is only natural that the aeveral.resuUant .mischiefs should,go also. Nothing,' we think/ coiild possibly be .fraught .with greater-danger, both “to . the public interest and to'the gentleman himself than to sot.down: a' single man,.however highly accomplished , intellectually and morally,tin.a small town, and to call him for the time being •; the ; Supreme Court. Nothihg'could beiro welbdevised to inakie -uncbnsoibils : , mWads 1 tipbh l 'the purbat' 'chaiaotbr/arid HblhiUg iihat irid;fcdre/COT'el;W''the '.'g'enttoifian; hiifiself j L'etua’uptrbejbiidei;-" 'stbbd'asfor bne instant; pr in.ipe'BmaiibSt .degree, imputingrany conscious' sw'erving fr,om ; 'the path pf ’ rectitude, "f in-this re-' spect,;wb .can felicitate'.ourselves, on possessing as pure and as accomplished 'a Beilch 'of Judges as any colony, in the Empirei’’ ’But’is; this any reason why we Should adopt a : course well calculated to the high quality 6f the article r, whi6h’'iVe.''possess? : ’We* ■'believe we are nghE'iii 1 we atiout'.ljhe only ’ fcclcfiyj .of : any , system/,obtain s., How, a|j'sjir;d /it/, is/, instance, 'yrhen'a'^mirof. Reserved ; a,t.ni?i.priufy. this point, should, ,ble argued, iefore-ivand .decidedibyq the : same iJudge rsitting,<in“banco;!; Eyenilitt. "the : dittlei coloriyiof Tasmaniamuch -i au 1 absurid : sight 1 as ibis is ! not’-to-be sebn;> * There ate, we.believe,. always at least two-' 1 Judges Sitting" ip : banco: These, remarks..we again haveh6tliifig' 1 'apositiou suiTpu^,edrby : ,a sey q£,ihfia-(.encesumost-'-unique,. auD.,npt .unlikelyi fio-,produce,-indirect consequences of a seriOUB; kind'bath-juris tic and socials;/“oil. ! - j ,We>therefore i» welcome i Justicfe Richmond personally atnong'fife ivith'kcen ;sai&fd6ti|in, '■f6u»dpd 'fe.xperfencp; 'atid'-W Hail with'feelings no lessheen, because,. it, Tie' comes as the ana sounder system -- j