NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 144, 28 November 1884, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Says a contributor to a Napier paper: — -Why. are some people privileged tb ; cera rait offences "without suffering the* disa vantage . of puplicity ? I ftsk the question because.. of an occurenee m the Wellington Supreme Court last week. A solicitor m that district had distinguished himself by an act which led to an application to strike his name ofl the rolls. : Mr Izard another solicitor, applied to the Court for leave' to set down a motion to strike ''a solicitor" off the rolls, ilr Gnlly r T anot^ersolicitor, $. */w solicitor who wak 'to, *Jst6- r struck off, consented to the application,; and an odtor •. r was ' mude. , Wfrat I , t want to know is, wThy '• a 'solicitor?" not Thomas Jinks, or Eraanuel Biuks, or whatever cogno'meri "a solicitor" is" known by? Why should Dick, Totn, or Harry who ;get iifto trouble,arid who cannot either of them boast of being "a solicitot" suffer the shame of their ' n^mef peing blazoned fo^th. m court in r , formation m newspaper cotoiiins, while members of the ' legal profession -who make a " mistake" are presented to the court incognito? The injustice of the anomaly is as great as under the^ old "^Veb'efif "of " clergy" business, 4 Under which any infernal scoundrel who cjould bodst of " orders" could escape the Icon|equenees p£ his crimes.." This twae telld^ved up to the reign of 'George fiy ; when the outrageous exemption 'was abolished. \ * Alexander Bussel's predecessor m the editofal chair of the Scotsman, whefc he retir.e,d to enjoy his w<JH^ Carried 'leisure, ■ wsa'so^oxiAyMt James PayhYrelaiejs, as W giv.e- his 'successor, some particular advjce. , "The, conduct, of a daily paper,"lie said, "is always a very Ben-: 6\iS l thing, full of dangers and difficulties; but, m addition to its usual anxieties, you, my friend, will eVery night f ha»e to keep a most vigilant watch less that map : Hill Burton should contrive to insert bis theory about Septch cheesW into your coliftnhs." It is ? not necessary to, paticulariae, what it was; it will, suffice^o say that this theory, based n'pbh the exposure of Scotch cheeses m front of the shops, and the treatment to which, they were consequently, exposed, was not complimentary or likely to reccbmrnend them to the pur- 1 chaser. " Day and night," said Bussel to Mr Payn, for fifteen years I never forgot my predecessor's warning.- A Hundred times that theory endeavoured . to gain admittance into my colmnns,and by most unlooked for channels—sometimes lurked concealed m an article on the Crimean War, sometimes m ous of the division* of the Free Church of Scotland, or even on the Disruption ■ itself; but it was always detected . and struck out. It was a duel to the death : for I knew that Hill Burton, Should' never relax his efforts to get his views upon Scotch cheeees into print while he had breath m his body. On the morning of the last day of the, fifteenth year he ran into my office, waving a paper in'his hand, and crying but. 'It's m, j%tfa ml* ' What,' ' cried I, 'you persevering dcvil — not m the Scotsman sure'ly-.?' 'No,' said *he— 'in Ckambej'q, Information for the people"