ARTICLED CLERKS

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 112, 31 March 1870, Page 5

ARTICLED CLERKS

(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.)

Sir, — The above subject, upon which some letters have appeared in your pap.er, is, I think, not only of importance to those gentlemen whose living depends upon the business which they have made here, but also to the public who have placed their interests in their hands for a long time past. Mr. Copland, solicitor, in endeavouring to undermine the t>iisiness of Messr3. Mouat and Keen, has adopted a course which, at the least, is unmanly. Had Mr. Copland depended upon his own forensic .ability to establish him in Lawrence, he would have adopted a creditable course ; but it would appear that he cannot trust to such a foundation. I was present last Monday when Mr. Keen appeared for the plaintiff in Wootton v. Long, and I must express my disapproval at the exhibition which Mr. Copland made of himself. He certainly succeeded iii preventing Mr. Keen from conducting plaintiff's case ; but what did he gain by it ? The defendant would not retain him, and consequently neither plaintiff nor defendant was represented. Mr. Keen was idle, and so was Mr. Cop-