APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 220, 13 October 1903, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

UNVEILING PORTRAIT CF LATE ?£B PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, Oatober 12. The Appeal Court opened before a full Bench, Judge Chapmiu taking his ?eal: Before the formal proceedings began, Mr Brown, president of tbe local Liw Society, asked the Ohief Justice to unveil tbe portrait of tha lite Judge El. S. Ohapmin, who, ho s'ated, was he first Judge appended to Wellington, He read a sketch of it ho life of the Judge, who died in 1831, and laid stress on the fait that he was so closely associated with Mr Wakefiild, Bishop Sclwyn, and others, and took so mush nterest in the colonisation of New Zealand as to bp, in fact, one of the founders of the colony. His appointment to be first Judge in Wellington thsnforo peculiiily fitting, and it vai an agreeable coiuci ieuce that enabled him to ask his Honor to unveil she portrait on the same day that a listinguishe.dson of an iilustii us fath r also took hia seat on that as a Judge of the Supremo Court. Sir Robert Stout, in performing the ceremony, referred briefly to the late Judge, by whom ho himself was admitted to the Bir, and under whom he hid pleaded. Judge Chipman held an uo qua position in the colonial history of the Empire, fer he had been associated with tbe early history of four important colonies—Canada, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Victoria. Ha had most interest in tha personal recollections of the deceased gentleman, who was a m\n of great culture and great learning, as skilled in the French tongue as in hw pwn, and well vaisei in German, Hh h.d known intim .tely j such men as Jeremy Bentham, ?.ni : Mills, and was especially well read in phi'ojcphical literature. Speaking for the Bench, be would say they wo r e ireatly pleased to hrtye the son of so distinguished a man associated with them in their judicial duties. There was a large attendance of tho Bar,

The portrdt bangs by the side of that of ex Chief Justice Prendergast, and opposite the lata Judge Richmond's. All were furbished by the ,Liw Society.