A Notable Scene.

Manawatu Herald, 2 November 1895, Page 2

A Notable Scene.

♦ ■1.1 ■■.-•■■ ,- At Government House, Adelaide, on tho^llth init., Actfng~G<jje*n<« Way had gathered together (Psmall party of clergymen for the purposed takii(g'fo : f maUleave of the_>Bev, -0$» H. Fitohett before his departure for Melbourne. Among the gueaf£waß Judge Windejer, who is on his' way to Broken Hill. The judge found himself in sympathetic company, and it was evident that the clergymen had watched the tragic course of the Dean trial with keen interest, and that their sympathies were with, the mucjj.; abused judge. , Mr . Fitcfieit congratulated Sir Windeyer .upqii the complete turn in public feeling which had now taken jplaceV Be who had been abused and vilified was right, and the man whom, he had sentenced proved himself, after all a. greater villain than evenjhe' judge and jury supposed. It waß. gathered from eye-witnesses that the. judge was moved to tears, and when the time-came for him to respond he completely broke down. For weeks past, he 'said, his. back, had '-?&& against the' wall, and the current of public feeling had been adverse^ to, him. He had been represented ,a^. unjusi and cruel, but through it allhe had been sustained by a con.. sciousness of his own integrity. Ncm a reaction had set in, and the kind expressions which poured npon him were more' than Mi could '■W*H'**e"fir Those who were present say that his utterance was choked with sobs, and there was not a drj eye round the table. The pathos of the scene was increased when the patriarchal Bbv. John Watsford, who was born at Pan'am.aM&. nearly eighty yeara *bq referred; to Judge Wia^eyer's^fatm^ whom he had krfown in. Qthef ' daysr' as a man of sterling intejgritj a»d

commanding powwv-.who could control audiences ■$£■ few others could. Other thingjjfcfywe B&id which those who were-prejsip(t declined to repeat as saoreifotf^be 'public ear, but the whole sra&fid^referred to as One which ca^neter ;be forgotten. Bafore thcJiil^y.f fcroke up the Rev. John Watford; had all of them on their knees; and gave God thanks for the pas t<^ and especially on the one frWhose . recent experiences had been^^liard to bear. — Argus.