"MOST OBJECTIONABLE LETTER."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 975, 16 November 1910, Page 6

"MOST OBJECTIONABLE LETTER."

MAGISTRATE AND SOLICITOR, (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, November 15. The order and general decorum of the Magistrate's Court was disturbed today by a brief passage at arras between Mr. C. C. .Kettle, SaVl., and Mr. C. J. Sclmauor. The affair took its origin in a very long case, in which Mr. SchnaUL-r hnd been acting for one of the parties hi the capacity of counsel. He wrote a letter to Mr. Kettle, and this letter the magistrate considered to bo a demand for a decision in his client's favour. Accordingly, this morning, Mri Kettle traversed all the facts of the case, including the letter, concluding by characterising it as "a most objectionable letter to write to a.magistrate." Mr. Schnauer rose to speak, and said that ho wished to explain, but ta.e magistrate said that lie would not hear him on the matter. Mr. Schnauer still made one or two such attempts to speak, but eventually he was told to sit down. Ho (Mr. Sclmauor) was evidently smarting under what ho considered harsh'treatment, and he used the word "unfair," whereupon the magistrate ordered him to show cause, at the conclusion of the sitting of the Court, why he should not bo committed for contempt. Subsequently, however, it was arranged that his Worship should hear Mr. Schnauer. on Tuesday next.