SKETCH OF MR DENNISTON'S. CAREER. Dunedin, Jan. 19.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 6

SKETCH OF MR DENNISTON'S. CAREER. Dunedin, Jan. 19.

Mb, John Edward Denhiston, who has just received the appointment of Supreme Court" Judge for Canterbury district, was born at Bishopton, near Glasgow, in 1845. Pie was educated partly -at Glasgow and Greenock Academies and ab the boarding school of Blair' Lodge, near Falkirk, .after which" be completed his education ,at Glasgow University. Mr Denniston's career in all his school days was a brilliant one,) and in his last year at Greonock Academy he was gold medalist as best- scholar in classics and mathematics. At Glasgow University he gained a valuable'scholai-ship open to all students from the populous counties of Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire^ At college he commenced to study for the bar, but was interrupted by his leaving for "New Zealand in company with his father (Mr Thomas Denniston, of lnvercargill) and brothers. In"1862, on'his ariival in the colony, he entered the Civil Service, joining the Post-office Department first in Inveicargill and afterwards in Christchurch, but after a few months' work he left the public service for that of the Bank of New South Wales, in which he served for upwards of six years. During the latter part of this time he read law steadily, and qualified himself for the post he obtained in the office of Mr Stewart, solicitor, nob then vacated by Mr (now Sir) Robert Stout. On the expiry of his articles and on being admitted as a solicitor after a most satisfactory examination, Mr Denniston joined Mr Hutcheson in practice at Wanganui for a few months but aftewards rejoined Mr Stewart in Dunedin as a partner. Mr Allen Holmes shortly aiterwards also joined the firm. On the opening of the Otago University Mr Denniston attended the Latin and mental philosophy clas&es, becoming a prize man in both.