A GHOST SCENE IN BRANDONSTREET.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 534, 1 May 1878, Page 2

A GHOST SCENE IN BRANDONSTREET.

The following scene, which must have been written by a shade ivy hand with invisible ink upon gossamer paper, was blown, apparently by the late north-easter, into our letterbox :

Ghost: Hold, enough ! jS..- Who art thou that with speech so rude dare’st thus imperiously accostine ? Ghost: I am not thy father’s ghost that comes his tardy son to' chide. lam the ghost of James, first Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of her Majesty’s Court of Exchequer, England. B.: 1 have heard of thee as a great lawyer, a clever and an upright judge. : Ghost; I come, my legal brother, to advise thee" in this thy trouble with the Courts, Hast read my autobiography , and ’ correspondence lately published'? " ' S : I have not had the good fortune yet, my lord. '' ‘■ - " 1 - Li ■ 1 ' ’■ - Ghost; I commend.it to,thy careful perusal, and the following extracts grapple to thy soul with hooka of steel. Brother, they were made by me fifty years ago, but are applicable still.

“ It.was not the fashion of the Bar to make long speeches, or to occupy ■ any time in resisting the opinion of the Judge once expressed." ... . • * , ’ “ I never made a speech with a view to my own reputation, nor for any other object than to save my client. The general audience, therefore, which crowded to hear popular speakers, took little interest in ; my performances. But the Judge and the jury, on the contrary, gave me their ‘ profound 1 • attention.” V , . . : : ’■ :

I took especial care not to combat with warmth any matter advanced by the Judge, nor indeed to oppose at all hut where I teas satis - fied I could alter his opinion hy the most inoffensive reasoning b