THE BENCH AND THE SEA.
Sir,—Re law reports in your Friday's issue. Case, Lomax and l'aget, two prisoners on trial, breaking :ui<l entering. His Honour: I don't want to send him (Loniax), a boy of 16', to gaol. Mr. O'Lcary (counsel) answered that the boy's own idea was to go to sea. ill's Honour; He doesn't know what that is, or ho wouldn't want to go. Well, sir, what made the iiritisli Empire what it is? Why, men and boys who wished to go to sea and went ami conquered. Yes, sir, that is where they made men out of rough material- and incorrigibles. Case No. 2: Joseph Caullierd, stealing a parrot. Had. been 011 ships all his life, and had borne a goad character, and by desertion had® fallen, probably, into bad company, got on .the wrong track, and, to raise the wind, stole the panot, His Honour: You'll batter get a ship and get away. How very funny tome verdicts are. Quid rides?—l uiu, etc., HI'INRY WALTON. Waikanae, June 21, 1913.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1791, 2 July 1913, Page 3
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173THE BENCH AND THE SEA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1791, 2 July 1913, Page 3
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