AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION, Receive' 6, 1.30 p.m. Adelaide, October 5,
Mr Rings'on, rtfeniug to the appointment of the Federal Chif f Jusiiue, said there was no oc; who did more to defeat Australian n tional aspirations inl9oothaiiSirS.Gnffi>h„ He recalled how keenly the d.legarcw who wont to London felt the diffic ilties caused by hie unwarrantable interference to induce the Colonial office to continue their pressure for the alteration of the Constitution Bill. Sir S. Griffiths was undoubtedly the delegates chief opponent. Although his appointment as Chief Justice did not augur ill for the future of the High Court, he (Mr Kingston) would have preferred to see another more in touch with Australian democratic sentiment and national hopes. Therefore he thought the appointment was a fatal mistake. Concluding, he said: —" My accusation against the Government is that for some unaccountable reason -he es-ential quality if fidelity to Austib ia has been forgotten in the belection of the chief guardian of the Australian constitution,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 214, 6 October 1903, Page 3
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164AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 214, 6 October 1903, Page 3
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