DR. CAMERONasked the Lord Advocate, Whether his attention has been called to the continuance of disputes regarding the administration of justice in Fraserburgh; whether it is true that, notwithstanding the decision of the Court of Session, the superintendent of police refused to take instructions from the gentleman who has been declared procurator, except upon the orders of the clerk to the Commissioners; whether that clerk, though ordered by the magistrates, will not convey their instructions to the superintendent of police; whether the administration of justice in the burgh is not thereby paralysed; and, whether, in the public interest, he will take immediate steps to compel the recalcitrant magistrate and officials to acknowledge the validity of the decree of the Court of Session?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)Sir, I am glad to say that the unfortunate disputes to which my hon. Friend refers appear to be now at an end. I have to-day received information that Mr. Finlayson is not to carry his contention further, and instructions have consequently been given to the police to report to Mr. Tarass the cases, appropriate for being dealt with by the burgh fiscal.