CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 109

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deliberation, he refused, after having ordered the adjourned meeting, to sanction the distribution of the credits, which had lain deposited in the Treasury for upwards of twelve months.

upon grounds so frivolous that I could not have believed it was possible for an English Judge to have enunciated them, and so unconscious did he seem of the scandal he had created that he actually asked me if he should publish it.

I can only wish to say that a practising barrister of twenty-five years standing, of more varied experience than that of ninety-nine men out of a hundred - who has filled for years a judicial position in the largest commercial city in the world, a Fellow commoner and prizeman of his college, Commissioner and Barrister, a man who has filled municipal offices with the fuller approval of his constituents (among the most intelligent in the world) and his colleagues, and who only comes to this Colony because he has been refused the Chief Justiceship of the West Coast of Africa on account of his age, and that of Western Australia by reason of not having previously served Her Majesty's Government, would hardly have taken a step which...

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deliberation, he refused, after having ordered the adjourned meeting, to sanction the distribution of the credits, which had lain deposited in the Treasury for upwards of twelve months. upon grounds so frivolous that I could not have believed it was possible for an English Judge to have enunciated them, and so unconscious did he seem of the scandal he had created that he actually asked me if he should publish it. I can only wish to say that a practising barrister of twenty-five years standing, of more varied experience than that of ninety-nine men out of a hundred - who has filled for years a judicial position in the largest commercial city in the world, a Fellow commoner and prizeman of his college, Commissioner and Barrister, a man who has filled municipal offices with the fuller approval of his constituents (among the most intelligent in the world) and his colleagues, and who only comes to this Colony because he has been refused the Chief Justiceship of the West Coast of Africa on account of his age, and that of Western Australia by reason of not having previously served Her Majesty's Government, would hardly have taken a step which... Page 105

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