"A Nice Dilemma"
The copies of the operetta, "Trial : by Jury," belong to some society oir " other up the coast. When the Wans%t ganui Society had done with them a^^ month ago, Feilding wrote politely, ' ''Please, lend us "Trial by Jury." . Wanganui replies, " Most happy; only they don't belong to us. Ask Patea;" Feilding asks Patea. Patea is Scotch, evidently, and replies, " We canna lend them till ye. Ye can ha* the use of them for thirty shillings?* " Feilding replies, All right here's the ) 30 bob." Patea tells Wanganui : "Ye : maun send our co-pees ©"Trial by ! Jury' to Feilding." Feilding sets t© work rehearsing, and announces a performance. Manaia now says to Wanganui: "Please send our 'Trial by Jury'" Wanganui replies : "Your 'Trial by Jury,' indeed! Didn't know you had one. Patea has lent its 'Trial by Jury' to Feilding for thirty shillings." Manaia says to Hawera: "Confound you! ,What do you mean by selling us ' Trial by Jury,' when it belongs to Patea?" Hawera replies : " Patea be blowed ! It was ours, and we sold it to you. We'll fix it directly." Then Hawera wires in at Wanganui : " What the deuce do you mean by lending our ' Trial by Jury' to Feilding ?" Wanganui replies: "What the dickens have you do with it ? It's Patea's, and Patea has lent it for thirty shillings. Your ' Trial by Jury,' indeed !" And that is the present position. In the words of the operetta,— Judge: "A nice dilemma we have here that calls for all our wit."
Counsel: "And at this stage it dont appear that we can settle it."
Meanwhile the canny Patea has got the thirty shillings. — Chronicle. [No it has'nt.— Ed. Jj\S.]
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 128, 8 April 1886, Page 2
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280"A Nice Dilemma" Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 128, 8 April 1886, Page 2
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