A HUMOROUS JUDGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2975, 13 August 1888, Page 3

A HUMOROUS JUDGE.

<tp t ->';-. ■.■'.;Mr Justice Williams was in a vein tlio other ■evening at annual dinner of old Otago Hij»h liv k ;\i''School Boys, where ho proposed tlio :?;sl;; toast of''The School," As reported ;v?';:i' >'by the Evening Star,his Honor, in tlio /■'." '■'■' courso of liia Bpeech, said there were a ■;>;;> uestions in ancient and modern •.'.'■•' KiPry to which pone had us yet found %•'■:' -ananswor. With nil due submission he had never been able to ascertain ::'■ where Achilles wns when he was hidden }?'■'.■ among, tho women (laughter;and ho ' did not know what song the siren's Bang;' nor could he toll where, Mr Jonathan Roberts might be, (Great laughter), All these questions wero .'■•'■'.■ as yet unanswered. He was also very much puzzled fo know why he should have had (lib honor of proposing this toast conferred on him, mid the only qualification ho could think of was that ho was the happy parent of two pupils at the High 3chool-(Laughl'er) Wpw he did not propose- to inlict upon thorn : any statistics wi'li respect to the High •■ I" School for two I' asons. One reason . ( was that statistics nfler dinner were exceedingly indigestible and interfered with what to him and to '■ all right-minded persons was tho .' i jeered process of digestion, (Laughter), further, he would give them none f because he had no statistical informato.give them, (Renewed LaughAftor referring to tho fact that an bid principal of tho school (Mr Hislop) Imd become n Minister of the Crown, Mr Justice Williams went on to alludo to the importance of learning niodorn languages, Everybody, lie added, knew the sport that was made in English schools of French masters, and there waiu tradition in the High School of Olago that some years ago the French muster was placed on a very . olovated shelf by 6omo of the sixth form boys, and was left there. (Laughter,) Under the presidency of Dr Behher it was not probable that an incident of that kind would happen, (Applause.) Another thing that could be said of tho Bchool was that it was living within its income. They all knew of a very ■ eminent financier, now deceased, who enunciated the profound maxim that it was the duty of everybody to iivo within his income, even if he had to borrow the money to do it, (Laugh ter.) That was a precept which, notwithJHing all the criticisms of English .Swpapers, New Zealand financiers Imd nobly carried out, (Loud laughter.) ;" : Happily, however, he might say that so fat-as the High School was concerned it lived within its, income without ' having to borrow,