A QUEENSLAND MAGISTRATE ON DRINK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2266, 9 April 1886, Page 2

A QUEENSLAND MAGISTRATE ON DRINK.

_ Under the title of" Advance, Australlift." the Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton, who has lived in Queensland some seven o? eight years at n cattle station, has pub- ' lished the result of his experience in a rough-and-roady style that will be very at-, tractive to the general reader. As a magistrate our author had often to.see a yod deal of justice administered J|> dw fi m ' magistrates. One oxampleTnill sfISQ. ' A prisoner was brought in charged with ' having removed goods to the Value of ona . shilling and fourpence from a store. .. Before the evidence was half, finished ft terrible frown gathered on the magistrate's . brow. Jamming his battered cabbag* hat well over his oyes, in imitation oftht .-. awful ceremony of putting on tho black cap, he rose slowly up, and, pointing « shaking finger at the culprit, said, " Tab im away and 'am;him." "Beg pardon, your worship," said the constable, "Thisis only a case of—" "Tab 'im away and. 'ahg him," repeated his worship, more slowly and impressively than before. " But, youi, .. worship," Expostulated the bewll. > dered official, "you have no power." No, power, just ain't I, though," shouted the now thoroughly infuriated ' magistrate.. "'Ear what I shay ?" Tab him away and 'am? him;" and subsiding into his ioat, he was heard to add voiced maudlin pathos, "And Lotffa . mercy on his soul." Seeing 'that reitiflnstrance was useless, t&4, constants , removed the prisoner,. atfWfterwardj •• ■ ', returned. "Taken 'im aw% and taig '■■< him?" asked the magistrate cheerfully;, w •:: ■"Ywiycmr worship." "All right;' I- ■ >■ sh miss the case.".—Tho Bible Standard.