Colonial Life
■ . A. /♦■ ■•: ~ The Press, or Friday last, says :— The irony of fate and the ups and downs bi colonial fife rwas exemplified by a little incident which occurred in the Bankruptby Court to-day, the Presiding Judge being* hie Honor the Chief Justice. Amongst the "poor debtors" wtocr came up for •their discharge was Mr R. C Shearman, land and estate agent, who, until up to a couple of years ago was Senior Inspector of Police in New Zealand. The incident brought to mind a period in the .". fifties,' 1 , the scene being laid in the Police: Court in the digging township of Maryborough, Victoria, A.. loafer is being prosecuted for robbery from a tent, the proseciiter being Inspector Shearman then of J tho - Victorian Police Force, whilst the Clerk of the petty sessions who is taking down the depositions is a young man named Prendergast, the present Chief Justice of the colony of Kew Zealand. " O tempOra, 0 mores."
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 146, 7 June 1892, Page 4
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