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 I Right Hon. Sir s. J. Way ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 231 in the Albert Hall, London, on June 14, 1897, in the presence of over 7,000 Masons, Mr. Way presented the Jubilee Address to Her Majesty from the (Jrand Lodges of South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand, to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales as Grand Master, who at the same time conferred on Mr. Va the rank of Past Grand Warden of I{ norland. In 1 89 1 the Chief Justice had a year's leave of absence. On his joiu'ney to England he made a tour through Northern India. The night he arrived at Calcutta h<; was presented to the Czaravitch (now Czar) of Russia. ?iis Indian tour was followed by visits to Egypt and the Holy Land, and a journey along the Levant to Constantinople, Buda-Pesth, Vienna, and Munich. During his stay in England the Chief Justice's circle of legal and other friends was much enlarged. In August he left for America, and th(?re, besides visiting New York, Washington, and Boston, he had an interesting tour in Canada. He crossed to Vancouver by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and returned to 7ustralia z'id Japan and China. At Yokohama he had a dangerous illness —influenza followed by double pneumonia — through which he was nursed by his brother. Dr. Way, who met him there in the late Mr. Millar's yacht. Visits to Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao followed, and the Chief Justice returned to Australia I'id Palmerston and Thursday Island. In 1896 the Flnglish Government determined to give effect to Lord Rosebery's Act of 1894 for strengthening the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, as the fmal Court of Appeal for the Colonies and India, by the appointment of representatives from Canada, South Africa, and Australasia. The colonies concerned were invited to nominate representatives. P^or the Australasian colonies, the name of the late Sir William Windeyer (Senior Puisne Judge of New South Wales) was submitted by that colony and Queensland. Largely through the infhience of Mr. Kingston (Premier of South Australia), the four other Australian colonies and New Zealand agreed to nominate Chief Justice Way, and in January, 1897, he was appointed by the Imperial Government. The late Mr. W. B. Dalley was the first. Sir Alfred Stephen was the second, and Mr. Way was the third, Australian Privy Councillor. He arrived in London on April 23, was sworn of Her Majesty's Privy Council on May 18, and took his seat on the Judicial Committee on the following day, being the first colonial Judge to sit on that Board. The Chief Justice joined in hearing appeals from India, South Africa, Jamaica, Ceylon, ^ictoria. New South Wales, Canada, and the Consular Court at .Shanghai. During this visit to England he presided at the South Australian bancjuet on May 29, which, out of compliment to himself, was attended by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Halsbury), by the Lord Chief Justice (the late Lord Russell of Killowen), by Lord James of Hereford, and by Earl Jersey and Earl Carrington (two ex-Governors of New .South Wales). He was also entertained by the Lord Chief Justice; by the Honorable Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Inner and Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn : and by the benchers and members of the King's Inn, in Dublin, at the banquet by the Irish Bar to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee. The appointment to the Judicial Committee carries with it no emoluments, and Mr. Way's journey to England was made at his own charges. Whilst absent, also at his own instance, he drew only half salary as Chief Justice, in order to provide for a /oaiiii tenens on the Supreme Court Bench. The Chief Justice has not since resumed his attendance on the Judicial Committee, as no provision has yet been made for payment ol his travelling and other expenses, which have been provided for in the case of the representatives from Canada and .South Africa. In 1879 and several subsequent years the Chief Justice was offered, but asked to be excused from accepting, the customary judicial knighthood, as he did also the distinction of K.C.M.G. in 1889. In the New Year's list of honors for 1890 he received the appointment