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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 161, 17 October 1910, Page 8

Sir Rufus Isaacs who (as stated ii our cable news recently) has been appointed Lord Justice of Appeal, has sat for Reading in the House of Commons since 1904. He is one of the most notable lawyers of the day. His defence of Whittaker Wright and his perfect mastery of a bewildering maze of figures, which he ran through hour after hour with hardly a note, was the talk of the town at the time. He is a tremendous worker, and in the prime of life—fifty. Mr. John Aulsebrook Simon, who is now to succeed Sir Rufus Isaacs as AttorneyGeneral, has represented the Walthamstow Division of Essex at Westminster since 1900. He is thirty-seven, and has had a i distinguished career at the Bar. He was one cf the counsel for Britain in the Alaska Boundary Arbitration proceedings in 1899, and wasmade a K.C. ii 1903. "I think the Rotorua tradespeople ought to give us all handsome presents for what we have done for them, as they are the only people who have made anything out of the 'trip," recently wrote the manager of the Maori company which toured America, in a letter to the Rev. F. A. Bennett, of Rotorua. This statement was confirmed by Mr. Bennett, who informed a Rotorua Times' representative that about £9OO in money due to the Maoris was sent to Rotorua while the troupe was away, and that the whole amount was distributed amongst the tradespeople in the town. Mr. Bennett also pointed out that one of the conditions which every applicant for the American tour had to comply with was a willingness to have a proportion of his salary withheld so as to meet all debts contracted. Some of these debts went back for many years, and there was very little likelihood of finding funds to meet them had it not been for the moneys received from the American tour.