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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3409, 16 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lord Justice Vaughan Williams, replying to the toast of “ The Bench and the Bar" at a dinner given by the Weavers’ Company, on February 2nd, said that when the health of members of the legal profession was proposed, what really was in the minds of all them was the English lovo of justice. He felt —and he believed they all felt in this time of trial—that, besides the Navy and the Army, one of the strongest forces of this country, one of the strongest bulwarks for their protection, was their love of justice. This love of justice which they saw flourished among the English people not only at home but also in every one of her Colonies. In the struggle now going on among the nations to secure the largest share of the commerce of the world, their best hope of securing their share consisted not so much in any appeal to force, but in the fact that wherever the English commercial community went they carried with them that sense of justice which recommended English commerce and English men of commerce to everyone with whom they dealt. The Colonies of England were the pride of England ; and he, as a lawyer, thought that the success of the English as colonists was largely to ha attributed to the fact that wherever Englishmen went they carried with them English juaticeAnd was it too much to hope that whether they had to deal with men like the gallant Afridis, with whom they were fighting now, or with the Boera in South Africa, or with the people of the hinterland in West Africa, they would never allow any desire tor their own personal aygrandise- ■ mant to interfere for oao moment in their with them as nations, according the English sensa of national justice % (Cheers.)