MRS. McGUINNESS AND JUDGE ARNEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1920, Page 2

MRS. McGUINNESS AND JUDGE ARNEY.

(To the Editor.)' Sir,—'"Old-Timer" and others are rightly bringing before the public the services of I prominent people in Now Zealand over fifty | yours ago. As the late Judge Arney has 1 been mentioned, Ills name recalls an amusing | incident in a rase before him in Auckland I in IHG4. One of tho witnesses got on 1 the good Judge's nerves, nnd he threatened , to commit her for contempt of Court. The ! inimitable Thatcher, well-known as a verifier 1 anil songster In those far off days, sang the ; following at his entertainmentsi', took a fancy to Arney— And soothed him with her blarney, Sho gave such a leer And called him 'My Dear,' To the great consternation of Arney. She then describes unto Judge Arney, The facts of the case with more blarney: 'The prisoner wld a ' key, Undid a box,' says she, 'And took out a night wrapper, Judge Arney.' •What's a. night wrapper?' says Judge Arney, The old lady replied full of blarney—- ' Why, then if you please, It's a kind of ehemiise, Wld a guilt to It, Mister George Arney.' This writer was a boy In the Court waiting for "copy" for a paper he was employed on, and remembers the habitues of the Court b<vng convulsed with laughter at the witness's description of what in these enlightened days is termed lingerie. Judge Arney being a bachelor, did not trouble Mrs. McGulnness with any more questions.—l am, etc., ANOTHER OLD TIMER.