THE LUTE JUDGE RICHMOND.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8197, 9 August 1895, Page 2

THE LUTE JUDGE RICHMOND.

Before the commencement of business at the Warden's Court yesterday) Mr Miller, as senior member of the bar, by thepermission of JudgeKenny, took occasion to refer to the great loss ( the bar and the country had sustained ' by the death of Judge Eichmond and proposed that they should send an expression of sympathy to his family. Mr Clendon concurred in the remarks of his friend, adding that when the history of the New Zealand judges came to be written the name of the late judge would stand out prominently as that of a man whose sterling qualities as a stateman, lawyer and a judge were worthy of the very highestrecognition. : Judge Kenny, who spoke with evident feeling, said there were,occasions when words were inadequate to convey all that one felt. It was difficult to add to the eulogies which had already been passed upon the deceased Justice by gentlemen in all parts of- the colony. ' But lie (Mr felt that he ought also to say something because lie was intimately connected with the late Judge for twenty years, and had practised before him at- the Bar; Perhaps the most monuments to his memory would be his judgments, which were models of literaiy ability, thought, and finish. Amongst, the bands of remarkable men who luiu founded this colony, the late Justice Richmond would stand pre-eminent. He (Mr Kenny): did not wish to make invidious comparisons,, but Justice Eichmond was certainly, second to none of those remarkable men. There was one aspect that had i not been touched upon, and that was that all through the latterpart of lus life Justice Eichmond had been a sufferer from that most painful and distressing complaint asthma, Mr Kenny then proceeded to say that he had knowu from his own personal observation how night after night the deceased gentleman had been unable to lie down, and yet when he appeared in the Court in the morning there was no trace of irritation or suffering, and 'he was affable and kind to all. No soldier upon

the field'of battle bad exhibited more courage and fortitude than he had done in his suffering, He was a loss not only to the Bench but to th& colony. In the great battle of right and wrong the late Justice Kichicoud had always been 011 the right side, and his loss made the world seem darker

than it was before, though perhaps it would not have appeared so bright had he not been. here. Mr Kenny concluded by saying that iir consequence of tliQ heavy day's work before them he could not adjourn the Court, but lie was sure that such would not be taken as any want of respect to the deceased Judge^