THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 17 September 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1880.

It ia with a feeling of sincere regret that we learu the intention of the Government to abolish the office held on the West Coast Jbyhia Honor Judge Weston. The reason assigned for Ihis precipitate, and to our thinking, out* rageous step, is the " exigency of the public service." And this is the reward for the seven years' service of a Jud^e who has set a pattern for the judicial bench of the Colony. This is the recompense meted out to one of the most honorable and upright Judges who have graced the position. For ourselves, we are amazed at the action of the Government. We are amazed to think that, for the credit of the j administration of justice, the Government could have found an ; exigency sufficient to warrant them in seeking to banish from jbjtf" bench the one of the very few District Judges in the Colony who bas made his-.administra-tion irreproachable. If a reduction of the number of District Judges is to be made, the public have at least the right to insist that proper discrimination shall be exercised in the process. In the present case it appears to have been sufficient for tbe Govern* ment tbat>tbere was a District Judgeship on the West Coast, and that it should therefore be abolished. How far the public will bear with this policy remains to be seen, for our own part we are of opinion that it has already been carried too far, and it is full time that tbe voice of remonstrance was raised