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Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 3

Referring to a despatch sent to the Secretary of State by the Governor of Western Australia (Sir P. N. Broome) in regard to the Chief Justice of that Colony, the ' Perth Inquirer' remarks that " a more wanton, unjustifiable, and cowardly scheme could not have been devised even by the crafty Sir F. N. Broome." It declares that he " has degraded himself in the opinion of the public by the contemptible manner in which he lias behaved." In conclusion, it says:—"Sir F. N. Broome has been guilty of making a groundless attack upon a gentleman's honor in the most cowardly manner; not for the sake of promoting the impartial administration of justice, but simply to gratify his own ignoble spite. We have had ample reason to characterise Sir F. N. Broome as a tyrannical despot of the most pronounced type, but now he stands revealed to the world as a cowardly official who does not hesitate to avail himself of the opportunities his position affords him to secretly attack the reputation of anyone who may chance to incur his displeasure. We can but hope the auspicious day is not far distant when the Colony will be relieved of such an incubus—when Western Australia will see the last of Sir Frederick Napier Broome." Western Australia may bo a despotically governed Colony, but the Press appears to be a tolerably free institution.