COLONIAL PRECEDENCE MELBOURNE, June 30.
Sir E. Barton states that the order of. precedence quoted in New Zealand does not- rerer to tbe Commonwealth. The State Governor (Sir G.* S. Clarke) says that no table of precedence has been. lately received from Home. July 3. Xegotia'ions with reference to precedence at f auctions in which the Federal authority iv represented are proceeding between Sir E. Barton and Mr Chamberlain. Feder.il Ministers are not satisfied with the table provisionally approved by the King. The religion difficulty in this table is overcome by placing the Primate and Cardinal side by side in State processions. The table make* no provision for State judges. Ministers, or parliamentarians. SYDNEY, June 30. The Telegraph states that Sir R. Stout's forcible protest on the question of precedence expresses an insistance on the proper prestige of a high judicial officer by comparison r with that of at least all the Ministers but the Premier. ADELAIDE, July 1. In regard to the precedence trouble in New Zealand, so far as this colony is concerned the Chief Justice takes precedence over Ministers according to a table approved by the late Queen in 1900.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 8 July 1903, Page 28
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