A Scene in the Masterton R.M. Court.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3178, 12 April 1889, Page 2

A Scene in the Masterton R.M. Court.

Diamond cut DiamondYesterday (Thursday) afternoon the time of tlio Court was taken with a pretty little dispute between two memberß of the Bar, wbioli, to say the least of it, was not of an edifying 'nature. Mr Bunny applied to the Court nnder the following circumstances: He said that early in February last ho was ongaged in. the Court as .counsel for the plaintiff in a case Disher v. Kelliher, claim for £lO 15s 3d, wages earned whilst working for defendant on a County Council contract on ■ 12th •February. Judgment was confessed for the amount with. 12s. costs. Mr Bunny then made application under the Workmen's Wages Act to Mr Von Stunner, 8.M., and obtained a notice of attachment and served it upon the County Council on the 13th, and by that means secured the money. On the following day judgment was entered up for the amount confessed; and Mr Bunny on the 15th obtained an order for payment of tho money and served it upon tho Council on tho 18th. On the same day ho also left with the County Clerk au order from Disher \ for Mr Bunny to receive tho money, j and he had thus dono all under the Aot to make the order completo. Wagland, to whom Disher was indebted, sued the latter.and obtained judgmont for £G 10s Gd, Knowing tho result of the case, Disher v. Kelliher, Wagland paid a cheque into Court for £ll7s 3d. and satisfied Disher's claim, but gave notice to the Clerk of the Court, under the Magistrate's Aot, not to pay over the monies to Disher until his olaim was satisfied. Wagland then applied through his solicitor to Mr Von Sturmer, under the powers conferred by the R.M. Act, to enable him to draw out of Court the monies due to Disher, in satisfaction of his judgment, This order was duly grantod by the Court, after all tho facts had been stated. To enable Wagland to receive the monies lying to the credit of Kelliher with the County Council, evidonce of the satisfaction of Disher's claim was produced to the Council, and Kellihor's order for Wagland to recoivo the money was duly lodged, and the money paid' over. The result was that tho claim of Wagland was paid in full, and Unbalance, £llss 9d, left in tho hands. - of tho Court. By this transaction, Mr Bunny was the loser of the difference between that amouut and the judgmont, equal to £G 10s 6d. Mr Bunny said those were the facts of tho case, and what he complained of was that this money never having been paid by Kollilier, but by an outside party, should not have been allowed to release tho monies at the Council, and although he knew that tho application made byMr Beard was an ex parte one, still he folt sure that had the Court known the circumstances of tho case it would not have made the order ex parte without informing him (Mr Bunny) of the application. Ho asked his Worship to express tho opinion that in all casos of those applications, notice should be given to counsel interested, He said by the action of his learned friend ho had boon victimised, as he held an order to receive the money from the Council from Disher, to whom ho had advanced certain monies, on the strength of such order to seize the monies. Mr Beard commented very severely upon the action of his learned friend, ( and said that under cover of an application which he slated he waß going to make out but which' he did not make he had made a personal attack upon him, Mr Beard, without giving him any notice of the matter referred to, and without having previously mentioned it to him. Of this, nowever ho did not cure, as the insinuations woro beneath his notice, in fact abuse from his learned friond was a compliment. Ho stated ho was quito prepared in all matters to havo his actions judged by any man of worth, but lie strongly ■ objected to have his conduct compared with that of his learned friend, He said that his learned friend would never have raised the discussion if he hud not been prompted by selfish and personal motives, and his soreness arose from having lost a small sum of money through not knowing how to look after it. A wordy warfare ensuod between * the counsel, and in reply to Mr i Bunny, ivho asked if Mr Wardell - intended to follow the usual course taken by Mr Von Stunner of notifying counsol ai ex parte applications. His Worship said he did not see how a rule could bo laid down,in the face, of the 'provisions of |he ;Aop ; He : ;; was hardly - : prepared.-;.t0,.-suggest any; ? permanent rule. It would be better' if the counsel interested received notice, but ho felt, there might be a • difficulty .in 'the: event; of solicitor^',-. living- -at' •a fX ''di , stkneflV,' He' 7 thpri./.. a'djdurae3 the Cdmt

A Komance in Real LiteThe end of a romance came suddenly this week (writes tho Now York correspondent of a contemporary) whose opening I watched with interest twenty-livo years ago, It was in the \ spring of 18G3 when a well-to-do friend of mine rushed into my house, his faco all beaming with smiles, and informed me that n boy baity had been left the night before upon his doorstep, The gentleman had no children of his own, so ho recommended his wife to adopt it, which she did. Years rolled on and tho oaild grew upace, handsome, bright, intelligent, affectionate, and all that a son/aaould bo to his parents. The 60Mj*-of his birth had been carefully coaled from him, and he had so wound himself around his adopted mother's heart that tho felt as much affection for him us if ho had been her own flesh and blood. The family removed to San Erancisco, and

tho adopted father of the boy died, Tho bond between mother and son was thereafter oven closer than it was before; he, perfectly satisfied in his uiothor's love, and she, leaning upon her aon as tho staff of hor old age, Business being rather dull in California at the time, and the mother in bar sorrow and loneliness ionging for ttlie scenes of her early home, sho sent on her son in advance to sou what chance there was for estab. lishing himself in New York, On his arrival in the city he called on a frioud of his mother's for counsel and ndvice, and thereafter mado his friend's office, which was on Broadway, his headquarters while looking about the oity. One day a lady, closely voiled and apparently excited, entered the offico and inquired for tho young man, but ho was not in, She called again twice with a like result. At last an appointment was made and sho requested an intorviow in private. Sho thou informed him that sho was his real mother, and that the man whom he called father was his father—thit it was upon his request he was left upon his doorstop, and

feeling that tbo safety of her child was assured, slio hid her slnirae as best she could, and after years she married a wealthy farmer on Long Island and was then the mother of five children. After breaking this terrible intelligence to him 6 - ue wanted fcio embrace him, but ho cast her from rliim and rushed from tho room iw she fell fainting on tho floor. Sho soon departed to return no more, and the young man, whose life had been hlnsted, wandered about like a maniac. Ho returned to San Francisco, but his mother was no longer his mother j the old lovo was dead in bis heart. The strain wns too much for her, and three weeks sfter they luid her to test on tho bleak side of Lone Mountain. Last week the fatal drama closed in tho upper room of one of tho cheap hotels, Young G was discovered dead; a 32calibre pistol told tho story of his taking oil—and so tho curtain falls on another New York tragedy.