Joking with a Judge
A correspondent of the " Waikato Gazette" tells the following story of Judge Johnston. He says " His Honor was very fussy and important. One night some wans knocked at his door and told him or his servant that Mr Stranj,', an officer of his court, was at the point of death. It was a bilterly cold night and raining hard, but the Judge put on his wrapper and gaiters and started up these terrible Wellington mountainous, unpaired streets to the residence of Mr Strang. Arrived there, wet through and covered with yellow mud, his Hon r asked for the moribund man. "He is upstairs, sir," said the servant; "the parson is with him." " Very proper, quite right,"- said Judge Johnston; " ii was thoughtful of you to send for him. Show me up" ; and up he went, and there was Mr Strang and the parson drinking some lovely hot whiskey, flavored with lemon and sugar. In spite of rewards and police enquiries tl-.e perpetrator of this cruel joke was never detected.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 75, 5 June 1884, Page 3
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173Joking with a Judge Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 75, 5 June 1884, Page 3
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