CLERGYMAN FINED.
CRITICISM OF JUDGE'S DECISION LONDON, June 29. A former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr. T. M. Johnstone, was fined £IOO for contempt of Court in a speech at the General Assembly in Belfast, in which he criticised the King’s Bench Division granting a. new license. He was ordered to be gaoled till he paid the fine, and was told he could not appeal. Dr. Johnstone will lie permitted to attend the ordination of his son on July 1, after which he must surrender himself at the gaol. A clergyman tried to address the Court, which broke up in disorder.
Dr. Johnstone is the nWhor of “Ulstermen : Their Fight for Fortune, Faith and Freedom.” He was educated at Queen’s University and Assembly’s College, Belfast. He is n graduate of the Royal TTn'VersPv of Ireland and a doctor of divinity of the Presbyterian Theological Faculty 1,1 Ireland. Dufferin medallist for oratory and sometime president of the Queen’s University Literary and Scientific Society, he has been minister of St. James’s Church, Ballymono.v, and Newington Presbyterian Church, Belfast. His works include: “The Crisis in Industry,” 1930; “These Fifty Years.” 1926; “Food for the Reformer,” 1930.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 9
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