THE CIVIC YEAR FOR 1873.

Evening Star, Issue 3249, 19 July 1873, Page 2

THE CIVIC YEAR FOR 1873.

What we may expect if a certain aspirant has his hope realised, and is elected Mayor of Dunedin. Scene.—Mayors Court. (Before His Worship the Mayor.) Jones v. Brown. —Case of Assault and Battery. Counsel for complainant: This, your Worship, is a case arising out of adisputeregarding the racing qualities of a horse. The defendant stated that he knew a certain horse that could run thirty miles within an hour. Complainant expressed doubt, whereupon strong language ensued between them, during which complainant admits haring called defendant a liar. The defendant immediately rushed at complainant, and inflated the serious injuries you now see complaintant suffering from. [Corroborative evidence is adduced.] His Worship (to defendant): So complainant called yer a liar, did he ? Defendant i Yes, your Worship. His Worship (to complainant): All as I say is, then, that it sarved yer right; and if yer’d called me a liar, I’d a-smasned yer the same as this ere mon has doom I’ll dismiss the case. Counsel: But, your Worship, in the parallel case of Robinson v. Wright His Worship : I doan’t care aboot larapel ea«es ; I arn’t a-going to be domineered over by you lawyers. I’ll give the vardict hew [ loike. Counsel; But I submit, ydhr Worship, that the law strictly provides that no man shall take the law in his own hands and strike His Worship (foaming): Dom the law, and ye too! I’m Mayor of Dunedin, and I’ll be guided by my own common sense I - [Counsel mutters something about -ignorance, whereupon the Mayor throws a book at his head, and the Court is dispersed amid general confusion.] Democrat,