The gentleman appointed to be Natives' Advocate shared the chief justice's opinion, was his close intimate, advised with him almost daily, and drifted at last into an attitude of opposition to his colleagues.

He suffered himself besides (being a layman in law) to embrace the interest of his clients with something of the warmth of a partisan.

Disagreeable scenes occurred in court; the advocate was more than once reproved, he was warned that his consultations with the judge of appeal tended to damage his own character and to lower the credit of the appellate court.
Having lost some cases on which he set importance, it should seem that he spoke unwisely among natives.

A sudden cry of colour prejudice went up; and Samoans were heard to assure each other that it was useless to appear before the Land Commission, which was sworn to support the whites.
This deplorable state of affairs was brought to an end by the departure from Samoa of the Natives' Advocate.

He was succeeded _pro tempore_ by a young New Zealander, E.W.Gurr, not much more versed in law than himself, and very much less so in Samoan.