POLISHING OFF ROBINSON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 4

POLISHING OFF ROBINSON.

Then for the fh*sfc time there was a move" ment among the barristers. Mr Inderwick' one of the leadeis, addressed the Couit and said: "There aro some things your lordship should hear before the children are given into her custody. ' To which his lordship replied with vigour: "I will nob listen to a man's ovplanation about his children until he has given them up, as I have ordered. I made the order myself, and Mr Robinson has not complied with it." The barrister was explaining still further when suddenly the Justice seemed to catch his meaning and said : "Do you say that it its dangerous for the children to go out of the custody of their father ?" " Yes, that's just it,"' replied the barrister. "That is a different matter, and I will not say that I will nob listen to an explanation if ib is of a serious character." This, however, did not disconcert the ladj T , who was managing her case, and she, too, said that she had some facts to present that would show why the children should be with her. The Justice looked at her papers a moment, and said that he would adjourn the case and give her a chance to have her witnesses — the two stewards — identify her husband as the man who was on the steamer with the strange woman. Then the barrister said (in reply bo Mrs Ilobinson's statement that hor husband could nob be found, although they had looked for him) that no obstacle, would be thrown in the way of the identification, and if the steward would communicate with Messrs Keighley and Arnold, in Old Jewry, they would give him an opportunity to &cc the defendant in the case and identify him.