THE Manawata Times. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 16. 1881. JUDICIAL CHANGES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 173, 16 November 1881, Page 2

THE Manawata Times.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 16. 1881. JUDICIAL CHANGES.

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Tv. our last issn° w s pnVhVied" the ti-lo a" », w^is'h uo received as we wpce about iroinej to • press, relative ■'o the. inci'fa-efl circuit which has been iuiDOM'd 'up.-n Mr WajRT), our worthy Re Mont Mi^istrUte, but the hnar"nt/whi-vli the intelligence arrived left it impossible for us to make comment upon it. The iMinister 'of ; '-Tnstico woold appear to look ii'ion Mr W.v^'D'as a-kind of judicial. A.ti..vs, who is equal to any burden, arid no -matter hoiv i 'mtt<s'h is heaped nport *Ris shouklprs'. he is jj'ilite equal siovu'&Jai'n the weight. In the eye of t't'r'-Mi ii«W he must he "a 'kind of •■'ici-'u-plu-/. "ith powers of expangi: on to -"meet aH emergencies, for no ?oo]ier'"d'es arHcancy become" existent, t'.ian thV services of: our E.M. are brought into requisition, This \vns th( j case with the Coronership, that office having been added to his other <!uties — although there were several most eligible gentlemen upon whom t could have been bestowed. When we received the Press Association's wire announcing the change, it may he rememberod'it stated that ? tlv arrangement was only temporary ;• since then, however, we have jre'oived a second, in which it is •Stilted ih'at it is permanent, as Judge Sna-w^to- fill whose place Mr Hatcdcastle has hoen removed to Wellington — his definitely irdsigned his position on the Bench, in order to enter into partnership with the legal firm of Bftvipo^and Sons. Of course if Mr. -"W*ABn feols himself equal to the additional task which has been imposed upon him, it is-not for us to comolai-n * althou h ■y&> mn-nt sat that the' disposition eviiiced Vy the Government towards that g ntlervian wou'l'd : appear to bo. to work a willing horse ' to death. The proposed change however, does affect us as a 'community, and consoquenlv we are perfectly justified in referring to 'and critising it. For •the past few years we have been agitating, andhaire been led' to ex- ■ pect that, if we would not have tl e j ReSident'Magistrate setl'ei at Palniei's'ton. th'ere" would certainly le j a more frequent sittings of tlv Court. Now, \vi; find that instead of that offi- • cial being. removed to -this town, he i is sent fifty miles farther away, and | atl hopes of more frequent court sittings entirely vanished. We have repeatedly referred to the policy of the present Ministry as one of retrogression,* and their action with regard to the present judicial changes is anothor instance, if such were wanting, of the truth of our assertion. The trifling saving to be effected is bo small in ' ertrnparison to the inconvenience which' ! #ill necom- ! pany it, that the^cfcan'ge cannot be defended upon th'e' score of economy, i for the new arrangement will give I as the re'sulltj -thfe _ minimum of benefit with the'maximum of evil. It is triie that courts are to be abolished at Turakina and Otaki, but that will not obviate the inconvenience of Which we complain, nor in the least lessen the injustice with which this district has been treated in the matter. The struggle which is being ; continually waged between the Government and the people of Manawatu reminds us very forcibly of the rarne called "the tug of war,"-— the the strength of one is pitted ngainst the other, and certainly at the present time the victory would appear to be'fegamst thb peopje of "the dls*-