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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 4 March 1885, Page 3

,' .A capital anoqdotp to us from a ". correspondent which 'will he keenly rojißheq bv' Scotchmen, It appears that i n on» of the rural townships in a neighbouring colony, a particularly captious old Caledonian made a point of, as often as possible taking his seat on the bench at the local police-court. His colleagues in tho commission of the peace found him so obstinate and hot-tempered tliat fchoy shirked, duty whenever they found him fyere, 83 he had becpmo a nuisance, iemg the sole occupant of the bench one say, and the business of the court being delayed through lack of a second magls< {rate, a facetious attorney, who was unpaged In a oase, and being aware of the hopelessness of getting a second magis-. {rate, undertook to'find'one, saying that there, was "a stranger in the town, who" was'ln,the commission-of the peace," Our old friend [undertook to keep his seat until a colleague was found. The attorney departed on his mission, and a few minutes afterwards a small parcel was brought into court addressed to the presiding .magistrate, 'The old gentleman : turned it over, and making sure "of- the Mourdoy of the address, he opened it in "iho presence of the/court. It contained. ; ,a red herring I Those who know that the -..term" ".Glasgpw Magistrate" is-'a niokuamofoiithose.dried fish will not only seethe joke, 'but judge its effect-on the choleric recipient.