WHAT THERE IS IN A NAME.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1155, 11 April 1872, Page 3

WHAT THERE IS IN A NAME.

. In a "Casual Note" published a few

weeks ago, a contributor to the Otago Daily Times referred to the fact of a stookowner in that Province having named a bull "Julius Yogel." Shortly afterwards, the Wellington Post, in quoting hit remarks, mentioned tho case of a resident in Dunedin, who named hia geese after the Jndges of the Supreme Court. For the following amnsing anecdote of a similar dimeter, the writer of "Casual Notes" is indebted to a correspondent :— "Nearly nine years ago, a respectable settler at the Kuri Bush was charged with cattle-stealing, but the evidence failing to support the charge, the case -was dismissed by the presiding Magistrate. The accused thereupon brought an action for malicious prosecution against the prosecutor. The case came on for trial oefore Mr Justice Richmond. During the course of the trial the plaintiff was asked to explain to the jury which the off-side of a 'bullock was. " The Judge exclaimed— ' Surely Mr — — , it is not necessav7 that ' a onaw'bacon should tell us that. The case proceeded, and ended in the Judge nonsuiting the plaintiff, much to his chagrin and annoyance. Some few days afterwards a gentleman from Dunedin > happened to overtake the unhappy plaintiff on his road homewards, and found him engaged in very lustily thrashing an ugly scarecrow of a bullock in his team. 'What the d— l are you doing there, Judge Richmond V said the unfortunate plaintiff to the bullock in question, bringing down a heavy thonged whip on his offnde. The exclamation, attracted the attention of the passer-by, and he asked the driver how it came to pass that he had 1 christened one of his bullocks 'Judge Richmond.' The explanation given by the driver was that he had , recently been called a chaw-bacon and nonsuited, and altogether veiy badly treated by Judge Richmondin the Supreme Conrt. To have " his revenge, he had christened the ugliest bullock in his team 'Judge Richmond/ so that he might vent bis indignation upon him whenever he felt so inclined. And he added— c If Judge Richmond gave it to me, I take it out of bis, namesake, so that I suppose we're about evnn.' With this, down came the whip again, the driver roaring, rather than • saying—' dome up, Judge Richmond, you old cbaw-bacon. What the d— l are you doing there V The gentleman from Dunediti proceeded on his way moralising." From this story it will be seen that my fears lest the bovine Julius should be thrashed if he fell into the hands of some one who owed his namesake a grudge, were not altogether without foundation.