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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 176, 26 July 1881, Page 2

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morniDg the ca3e came on for hearing of Monckton v. A. Lyford for £27 4a 6d for professional ai tendance, &c. Mr Moore appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Percy Adams for the defendant. The latter raised the objection that the plaintiff could not proceed after filing a declaration of insolvency, bat that it was for the creditors' trustee to take action. Mr Broud took time to consider the question, and on the Court resuming at two o'clock he said that after looking up the previsions of the Bankruptcy Act b.B was satisfied the present plaintiff was not entitled to maintain the action. Supposing him to get a judgment (here was coining to prevent the trustee aueing again as the property was vr-sted iv hico. In reply to an application from Mr Adams for cost?, His Worchip said that he v?as not inclined to allow them, as tho bankruptcy Lad intervened between the issue of the summons and the hearing of the case, bssides which an order would be of no avail, as they could not recover against Dr Moncktou under the circumstances nor from the eßtate, be the debt would not be proyeable under bankruptcy. The ancient settlers in Wakapuaka are dearly focd of a drop o' good beer, and not evtn the anxiety consequent upon a pending lawsuit, nor the dread of offending the majesty of the law v/ill keep them from it. During the adjournment of the case heard in Court to-day the defendant sought hia cuatomary solace and by fas time the Magis-

trate took his seat for Ihe second time was pretty well oblivious of what Was going on around bin But Ihe application of his counsci ."or costs appeared to strike a responsive cbotd in bis bosom and from the ] form on which he was reclining in an easy attitude ho occasionally interjected certain remarks in a loud but somewhat thick and beery tone of voice. As these cotntnentß had no immediate bearing upon the strict laft 01 the casa he was peremptorily ordered to be silent, bat he had passed beyond the stage of lawful obedience, and silence was only obtained by bis being .forcibly ejected by the baiiifl: and a stalwart constable. When last seen ho wrs addressing a few brief remarks on the law of costs to a pinus insights. A young man named Samuel Garter waß brought over to th§ Hosj iial from the Moutere yesterday having sustained severe injuries while falling buah by a branch of a tree falling on hisback and producing psriial paralysis. The entertainment advertised to be given by the Her. Father Mahoney -will take place at St Mary's Girls schoolroom this evening at 7 o'clock. ThK Rev. J Berry will deliver" a iecture oh " What I saw in America in 1880 *' at the Theatre Royal this evening 'commencing at 7.30. Attention is directed to Mr H. Hounsell's new advertisements on the first page. The following— which we q"uofce only to condemn— ia the paragraph, alluded to by our Wellington qorrespondenti which appeared in the ft.Z. Times, relative to the supposed moSive for Mr Ormond'B coming j forward as leader of the Opposition :— " There is a woman at the bottom of all mischief is a bit of proverbial philosophy which none care to dispute. A lobby rumor says the present crisis in the Honse ia clearly traceable to lovely woman's influence j that the wife of ex- Superintendent Ormond pines for a resumption of her liege lord's dignities; and that, urged by her Jcodnsel, he has thrown the apple of discord into the arena." I For aiich a breach of etiquette the Times richly deserved th 9 rebuke administered to it by the evening paper, and which produced the following apology in the next issue : " We regret that a foolish piece of gossip, containic^ ah allusion to Mr Ormond'a domestic circle, found its way into our local column yesterday morning. It belongs to a class of humor we have no fancy for, and the Jam pas having been induced through inadvertency, under the pressure of late work and political excitement, we frankly and heartily express our regret for it. To us the private lives of boih friends and foes are absolutely sacred. We are no society journal, but simply a morning newspaper holding meddling with, the domestic affairs of our neighbors in thorough detestation."