THE CHIEF JUDGESHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 32, 6 December 1873, Page 8

THE CHIEF JUDGESHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

Ox late there have been rancorous doings in N. S. Wales in regard to tbe appoint aent to the Chief Judgeship. The 'Wellington ladependent mildly describes them as follows:— From New South Wales T6T 6 Ihe1 he " tliat Mr Parkes, the Prime Minister, has provoked a pood deal of dissatisfaction by his having appointed Sir James Martin to be Cniet Justice, vice Sir Alfred Stephen resigned. It seems to have oeen expected that Mr Butler, the Attorney-General, would have received the liighest judicial appointment as a matter of course according to usual practice. Ifc would appear, however, that religious pressure has had something to do with the appointment, Mr Butler being a .Roman Catholic, and there being already one Catholic Judge upon the Bench. f l he Orangemen, who area numerous body and politically active, threatened the Ministry with all sorts of consequences if Mr Butler wae appointed, and Mr Parkes gave in.