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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5660, 19 October 1889, Page 2

The jDunedin Star has raised the cry of legal reform, and ix its crusade ib will have the good wihhes of overyono, with, perhaps, tbo exception of thoso engaged in law business. Tlio immediate cause of our contemporary taking up tho question was the decision iv tho Gallic caso. Mr. Gallic waa one of the early settlers iv Otago, and nt his death left a few thousands behind him, which ho willed to his wife. Probate of tho will was challenged ou tho ground that at the time tho will was made Mr. Uallio was not of sound mind. Tho ground chosen opened up a perfect gold mine for the legal fraternity. Mr Gallic was well known to the old settlers, and as a matter of course, the Old settlers' views on his mental condition were as varied us could bo desired. Given such conditions, it was evident that the trial, owing to the number of witnesses, must be a long oue, and the result was v decision that Mr Gallic's will was upser, and the o.state-of which very httlo will be l e ft_will bo divided among the kin. Now , what is wanted is some mode of procedure th-'t will prove equally satisfactory us that at Went in vogue, but which will be less oostlv Those opposed to tho will which it was sought to have probate granted to have triumphed, but in the meantime tho bulk; of the money goes to the lawyers, so that in the meantime tho success of the litigants is somewhat damped. It is decidedly unfair that while tho State should provide tho in nans for deciding such questions, that the «ott lemenfc of tho ais P ute should mean such wy uostii to tiie liti s H,ltil - i

" It is intended to seoure a Home Eule seat for Sir George Grey ;" so says an Englishcablegram, and from this it may be gathered that our ex-Governor is still coquetting for a place in the Imperial Parliament; When he had decided,to sell his lovely home on the Island of Kawau, it was announced that Sir Georgo was on the eve of bidding farewell to New Zealand, and the gift ;oi some of his art treasures to the City of Auckland supported the statement! Since then, howover, Sir George Grey has been living at the Northern Club, and people hud almost forgotten that he had contemplated leaving the colony. Now comes this cablegram, which shows, at all events, that he must have been keeping, up ,a.correspondence with ~Bomo, political party in the Old Country with a view to a feat in Parliament. His departure from New Zealand, even by his frit-ndn, will not bo regarded from a "political , point of view with regret. ~,■ Sir Georgo has completed his career here ; for tho last fow years he has been powerless for good or evil, and he stands alone in the General Assembly a leader without a following. In the Imperial Parliament he may be able to exerciso more influence than in our own House of Representatives. His colonial experience will give him a certain weight, but should he assume his favorite role, and lecture and scold Ministers at Home on their wickedness, he will only be laughed at, as ho is laughed at here.