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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1415, 24 June 1915, Page 4

PIANO BUYING MADE EASY. During our Annual Balance this month we are prepared to offer terms of payment even more advantageous than the very liberal terms we extend in the ordinarv course of business, Perhaps, you do not want terms ; but if you do, this is your special opportunity. We have just opened big new shipments of superb instruments, including such famous British pianos as The Broadwood, The Sames, The Collinson, The Collard and Collard, also the renowned Canadian organs -- The Bell and The Imperial. If you purchase during this Annual Balance period you are therefore assured of a really fine instrument, while the payments will be in every way easy. Let _us help you to select a piano that will afford life long satisfaction. The Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., Wellington. North Island Manager : M. 1. Brookes.

Farmers and flaxmill employees are recommended our new special waterproof boots. We guarantee them. R. T, Betty.* “THE WORST JUDGE 1 EVER SAW.” KA.MOfS K.C.'S VIEW OK JCSTICE HAWKINS. Sir Edwn rd Clarke, ihe lamoiii, K.( . and ioniiiT Solicdor-l-cncral, is cinitnhuling lu 1 lie Coruhill .Maga/aue an inIcrcsuug series ol articles entitled, ••|.eave> horn a Lawyer's Cast.* Book. Jn Llh• April number lie gives a deseriplion ol ihe I’enge murder mystery inai ol ;(7 rears ago, whan lie appeared lor Ihe deleave ol I’atriek Staunton. Sir Edward, .severely criticising the Judge* who Lneil the ease--the famous Sir Henry Hawking, afterward* baron Jiromplon —says; ' Lie was the worst Judge 1 ever knew or heard ol.’’ Sir I'Mward Clarke introduces his criticism in the following paragraph concerning the great criminal came ul 1577 "With any Judge and any jury the conviction ol three ol the prisoners lor manslaughter, it not lor the graver crime ol murder, wa.s ijiiite inevitable and the special duty ol the Judge was to take care that the cate against Alice Rhodes was separately considered, and (hat the medical evidence, upon which the doubt arose whether the* 1 graver crime had been, in diet, committed, should he caietnlly examined. Neither ol these duties was discharged j they were not even attempted. ’ NO TRACE OE FAIRNESS, Hiring described his speech lor the delence, the famous counsel continues: •■Then began the strangest summing up that was ever heard in a criminal case. Speaking in a gentle, clear, beautifullymodulated voice, the Judge set hansel I to recapitulate all the lacts, however trivial and unimportant, which had been related in the evidence of the last four days. As an exhibition ol tenacious and exact memory it was wonderful. The narrative was complete, and perfectly arranged. But of the judicial fairness which should characterise a summing