INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2973, 15 May 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, May 13. The Rev W. Calder, who visited Scott this morning, says that the accused now appears fidgefccy. Scott stated that he wished to make a written statement, and it will probably be taken on Monday. Wellington, May 13. The Minister for Lands goes south tomorrow, and after meeting the Colonial Treasurer at Dunedin he will go home and address his constituents, entering upon a full defense and exposition of his land I policy • The members of the legal profession, took formal leave of Mr Robinson, late Resident Magistrate, now a Dietrist Judge, today. Twenty-six were present, besides a number of officials of the Supreme Court and Resident Magistrate's Court. Mr P-dwards, on behalf of his confreres, testified to the care which Mr Robinson had always bestowed upon the cases before him; if anything he was too ready to hear minute details, but that was a fault on the right side. He congratulated him heartily upon his promotion. Mr I Robinson, in reply, eaid he felt very much complimented by the number of barristers present. He mentioned that during his five years' tenure there had passed through the Court a yearly average of 4000 cases. His Honour referred in felicitous tenrs to the number of promising young lawyers whom the colony had produced. It is stated that the Government are not satisfied with the dismissal" of the charge of drunkenness against Detective Ide, considering that sufficient weight was not given to the evidence of Detective Campbell, and that a conflict of testimony is riot likely' to conduce 'to the efficiency of the force. DusEpi^, Mayl3. T}ip Hon Mr Larnach has written to the Minister of .Justice complaining of *;he remarks reported to hare been made by Judge Kenny in granting an order declaring R. H. J. Reeves a bankrupt. Mr Larnach says that if the Judge had been right in his assumption he would still have shown unfitness for the position he occupies by the remarks hB is reported to have made, but had he known the true facts, the verdict, he feels sure, would have been that he (Mr Larnach) had shown extreme leniency to Mr Reeve? over a long course of years. Freeman Kitchen will be sent on to Wellington to-morrow to answer a charge of wife desertion.