STRICTLY PRIVATE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 4

STRICTLY PRIVATE.

; CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE PRESS. j A certain case which lms been the subJ joct of a good do.il of talk in tho town [ was again before the Chief Justice (Sir liobei-t Stout) ycilerday morning, and, as on former occasions, the proceedings were [ kept strictly private. 'Ihrcc newspaper ■ reporters, deeming the matter to be ono ; of public concern, and wishing to bo 5 Mire ot the position in which tno Court ■ might place tiicm, entered tho room-where ' tho Chief Justice was to sit. Tho up--1 pointed hour was about to strike. His I lionour had not arrived. Officers of tho 1 Court and lawyers' clerks were present, ■ and Mr. A. "W. Blair, of tho tirm of • Messrs. Chapman, Skerrett, Wylie, and 1 Tripp, came in shortly afterwards. 1 The Hegistrar (Mr. 1). (j. A. Cooper) 1 informed the pressmen that they would 1 not bo allowed to bo present during the • proceedings. One of tile, pressmen asked 1 whether the Court had made an order to 1 that effect, and Mr. Cooper replied in tho 1 affirmative. The reporters, however, in- ■ timated that they, would prefer to await ' tlin Chief Justice and havo their dismissal, if at all, from his own mouth. ; Mr. Cooper then went out. fl<> re- ' turned a, few minutes later, and, addressing the reporters, said: "Gentlwncn, 3 1 have told his Honour that you aro e here, and what you havo said. He has f asked me to nay that the proceedings will i" be in camera, and he desires you to witk- - draw." The reporters withdrew. Subsequently, replying through a subi ordiuate officer of the Court to a question - put by the press representatives, tho - Registrar Said that publication of tho name of the case was forbidden.