THE MIGHTY FALLEN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2542, 14 May 1881, Page 2

THE MIGHTY FALLEN.

Says “ AEgles ” in the “ Australasian —There are few nan.es better known in Australia than that of James Morton, of Glasgow, export oilman, &c., who helped to smash the City Bank, and for whom the widow and fatherless pray—if they are forgiving. How are the mighty fallen I Cesium non animum mutant ” seems to have a special fitness for this most adroit person, who, on Feb. 8, at Paisley, was charged before the sheriff substitute with having, “ by the hands of his servant, sold to Robert Green 4d worth of cream diluted with 33 per cent of skim milk, whereby the said James Morton was liable in a penalty not exceeding £20.” For a gentleman whose operations ranged over hundreds of thousands of pounds this is, indeed, playing the game very low. It is fair to say that the case was postponed in order that it might be heard before the sheriff himself, but the prosecution was at the instance of the sanitary inspector by the borough procurator fiscal, and is not, therefore, likely to have been instigated by private or personal malice.