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Temuka Leader, Issue 1510, 25 May 1886, Page 3

A QUEENSLAND J.P. Mr Harold Finch Hatton, a gentleman who haa bad a somewhat extensive ex* perience of life in the sister Colony, has published in London a racy account of the same. As a Magistrate our author had often to sea a good deal of justice administered by drunken magistrates. One example will suffice. A prisoner was brought in charged with having removed goods to the value of Is 4d from a store. Before the evidence was half finished a terrible frown gathered on the Magistrate’s brow. Jamming bis csbbage-tree bat well over his eyes, in imitation of the awful ceremony of putting on the black cap, ho rose slowly np, and pointing a shaking finger at the culprit, said ; “Take ’im away and ’ang him.” “ Beg pardon, your Worship,” said the constable, “ this is oply a case of—” “Take ’im away and 'ang him,” repeated His Worship, more slowly and impressively than before. “ But, your Worship,” expostulated the bewildered official, “ you have no power.” “No power, just ain't I, though,’’ shouted the now thoroughly infuriated magistrate. “ ’Ear what I shay I—Take him away and ’ang him,” and subsiding into his seat, he was heard to add in a voice of maudlin pathos, “And Lor’ ’a mercy on his soul.” Seeing that remonstrance was useless, the constable removed the prisoner and afterwards returned. “ Taksn ’im away and ’ung him ?” asked the Magistrate, cheerfully, ‘I Fes, you Worship,” | “All right. I sh’miss case.”