MR JUSTICE EDWARDS CONCURS.

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MR JUSTICE EDWARDS CONCURS.

Mr Justice Edwards said he had lead and carefully considered the statement made by Mr Justice Williams on behalf of the Court of Appeal, who decided the case, and he desired to express hie entire concurrence in that protest. He did not happen to be one of the Judges against whom the Judicial Committee's imputations had been levelled, but the honour of the Court wae the honour of every member of the Court, and h* felt that the protest againet such imputations should 'be unanimous and unequivocal, and in the interests of justice, liberty, and decency, and of the unity of that great Empire which could only be held together by the mutual respect of its kindred communities, he protested against them. REMARKS FROM THE BAR. Mr W. T. L. Travers, on behalf of the Bar, said: he wished to say that the confidence always entertained by the Bar of New Zealand as regarded the superior tribunals before which they had been nonoured to practice was not Kfcely to be, and certainly had not been, in any degree shaken. They felt that in pleading before the Bench, whether the Supreme Court or Court of Appeal, that the judigmente propounded by the Judgee, whether individually or collectively, had always been, characterised by the Titmoeb integrity and a thorough knowledge of the law. It war their desire that the protest made ,by the Judges of the Conrt Appeal should be, supported in every point by the member* of the Bar. ■