JUDGE BARTON ON THE GOVERNMENT.
{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, March 7. Judge Barton, in the Validation Court, tead to the Gisborne Bar the correspondence between himself and Government, in which he complained that they had made stoppages from his pay in such a manner as to interfere with his judicial independence, and he refused to sit as a Judge under such conditions. The Judge stated that on February 22nd the Government undortook to reply to his remonstrances in a day or two, but had failed to do so. In his statement he alleged breaches of faith with him by the Native Minister: the breaches he aaid could be proved by letters of Mr Carroll's in which that gentleman undertook that, unless faith was kept, he would leave the Ministry.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9860, 9 March 1896, Page 6
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