VETO BILL DIEHARD

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1922, Page 4

VETO BILL DIEHARD

He often sat as a. member of. the Court of Appeal,'and presided over fhe tribunal which lias added 1 the Jackson case to our legal system, by which it has been decided that a husband lias no power to compel his wife to livei with him, even though armed with a restitution suit ordering her to return. Five years after leaving the woolsack lord Halsbury made a vigorous return to the political arena. The “old man wonderful joined the ranks of the “diehards” who fought' every inch of Mr Asquith’s Parliament Bill which finally overcame the opposition of the House of Lords to Home Rule. In appearance Lpr t d fTalslniyy was short and sturdily |niilt, with a rugged and combative face which might have fijguredi in ope of Hogarth’s pictures. On the woolsack his short legs dangled to within an inch of the floor. An actress being shown over the sacred precincts while the House was sitting exclnimecj, “Why, it’s johnny Toole in a cocked hat.” IJe had great dignity as we|l as much real goodness of heart. During his later yeprs it is pot

too much to say that he was revered and loved in the profession which he 1 had done so much to raise in the estimation of his countrymen. No Lerd Chancellor has ever had larger patronage.' Nearly every occupant of the High Court Bench in the ’nineties was 'll is appointment, and it is estimated that in his time"he must have created forty county court judges. Lord Hals bury was twice married. His first wife, a Miss Humphreys, the daughter of a solicitor, died very early in their married life. The present Lady Halsbury was a Miss Woodfall. There were two children of the marriage, and the only son, Viscount Tiverton, succeeds to the title. He is/ a barrister and was born in 1880.