BAR VERSUS BENCH.
A somew.hafi shorb. bnfc decidedly sarcatr. • ibic dialogue took-placea-few. days ago, at a^ 1 sitting of the. Feilding Conrt, between .Mr. iHawkinft and- Mr:' Ward, the/ presiding, < magistrate. ~ Some little fcimp. ago an agita-. tion was got up. in Palmerstbn with regards '' to rllhe. necessity. 1 f or;/a central gaol for. the. :West Coast,; buj; apparenrty the, Besident. M_agistrate: holds the same, opinion with regard' to it'as to the need' for "a." District. Court, foriha never loses in opportunity of • 'ridicuung the. proppsition.'laMit -Friday •, prispn«r had just? been; sentenced to four-, teen days'" imprisonment, and Mr. Ward: '■. thought Ke^wpuld hare a joke at the ex-; [pense. of the: proposed; r gaol and* ; Mr. I Hawkins, so assuming an.<air of grave: inno-* i cence, he askedj ".Pray;rMr: Hawkbs, have, you got a gaol at Palme'raton,?!- But the. i counsel w,«a equal tq, the ; occasion/ and; : turned the, tajj)es upon, the. august joker, iby rasppndjnjf i: "3spi^^ Sir,,; w^ei.-have. not j. v.butj we.hayea/District Cdurt, a^ofe. which' • appears to" conveniently slip, ybuf .memory, **t certain.timfs.' 1 - The. irony of the retort, imay not be pjainVtb all : our readers, but : the audience smiled audibly, and. the . R» M. 1 b>caine; : suddenly^aliv.e; & JtHe. fact thafc. joking wM, put of; place ; in v the Temple of ; Justice,' ; ' " ..":.'■■ s
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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 50, 23 June 1880, Page 2
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