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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3565, 14 October 1880, Page 2

The steward of the New Plymouth Hospital has received from Mrs. H. H. Brown linen with thanks. The s.s. Taiaroa, Captain J. Malcolm, left Onehunga yesterday at 4.40 a.m., crossed Man ukau bar two hours later, and arrived in the roadstead shortly after 0 p.m. Having landed passengers and mails she proceeded for Nelson at 5.30 p.m. Available sites for residences are beginning to get very scarce in New Plymouth, therefore persons who arc desirous of securing a home of their own should not lose the oppor" Unity now offering, bnK bhould purchase one of the seventeen sections on the Soutli Road» which will be disposed of by auction on Wednesday, November 3. — Advt. Referring to the abolition o£ the District Court on the West Coast of the Southern Island, and the proposed dismissal of his Honor Judge Weston, the Inangahua Times says — " The reason assigned for this precipitate, and to our thinking, outrageous step, is the (: exigency of the public service." And this is the ! reward for seven years' service of a Judge who has set a pattern for the judicial bench of the Colony. This is the recompense meted out to one of the most honorable and upright Judges who have grace I the position. For ourselves, we are amazed at the action of the Government. We are amazed to think that for the credit of the administration of justice, the Government could have found an exigenc} r sufficient to warrant them in seeking to banish from the bench the one of the very few District Judges in the colony who has made his administration irreproachable. If a reduction of the number of District Judges is to be made, the public have at least the right to insist that proper discrimination shall be exercised in the process. In the present case it appeais to have been sufficient for the Government that there was a District Judgeship ou the West Coast, and that it should therefore be abolished. How far the public will bear with this policy remains to be seen, for our own part we are of opinion that it has already beeu carried too far, and it is full time that the voice of remonstrance was raised.' 1