The Daily News. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1903. THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 105, 1 May 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1903. THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

A corkesposijbnt in another column j ro-o, ens this quottion. Our reason for {objecting to the course pursued by the ! Chief Justico and his co : leapu s was that it was undigi.ifiud, the wrong plac) to make tin protest, and what euch a router, if followed up, tfr>y lead to. la our (pinion tho protests made, and very excellent the matter contiined in th m is, should have been sent to the Right Hod. the Premier for presentation to the flouais of Parliament. If the statement made by th j Privy Council W(.<ro ic woul i bo the duty of Parliament, which alone can remove a judge, to remove th.m. Parliament should c sitainly take some action when it meets to protect the judges, but we fiar by thoir lusty action thij ('elictto matter has become moro complica'<d. The s'atemeute mide by the judges are probably the a'.lest and most important ddiverances that have come under our no'ice, and are an education in tlv vnstlvos on this important subjec', aid bhtuid bo forwarded to tho Privy Council through His Excellency the Governor in tho form of a State papsr This would have be?n the dignified p-isiti on to take up. We mticethat' Mr 0 Samuel, speaking at the mee ing of the local law society, expressed thjj same vidw as we expressed in cur Tues day's issue—views written almost at the s ime time as he was speiking. It w ill be seen that if the course pursued in ■ his case were followed up, we should luvi Judge Connolly, for instance, slating the Ooilrt of Appeal when it™ verged any of bis decisions, and Mr Stanf.ro, S M., indulging, in bis seat on the S.M. Court, in a tirade of abu.e of Judge Uonnolly when his jurigmeuts j neve upset. It is hardly necessary to say that such a state of things would |b> unbeatable-. The suggestion of a I High Oourt of Appeal for Australasia has- the objection that it renders New Zealand subordinate to Australia. Tho real remedy is to reform the Privy Council, and place on it a representative of each group of colonies. We are very much averse to doing away with pur supreme Imperial Council, but there is no reason why that council should not te thoroughly representative of all parts of the Empire, so that an intc)lig»nt decision could be giveD in each wee which came before it, If the present difficulty leadi to this being brought about, it will be a case of much good Cuming out of evil.