A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1583, 26 August 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER.

He heaped the logio pile on pile, the ovi« donee fitill higher^ < ' The uouuhel on the other side he hiuted Was a liar. , Ho f-nid hi-, client was a Avcll-knowu gentlouiiin ;md scholar • - And thai, ln.i .-<ido had never paid their \vitneM«-» a dollar Ho told then of tho oioliuu'h moans, the base oppressor's sueei'H, Aud piling puthos mountain deep, moved till the Court to teursr He said : ''1 came not hero for fame, nor yet for paltry gold ; Butjubticeia a thing,', my friends, that never can be sold" ; '- . And then at the rasoality filled with indignant rage, Declared the aot unparalleled in any previous age. He said that such a pei jured wretch ne'er breathed beneath the sun, m And, rising in liU legal might, asked that™ the right be done. Ho quoted Black.stouf, Chitty, Bumm, that no one could dispute, And baid his " chain of reasoning" no lawyer could refute. He told tho " honest, lawfuly men" to judge alone by i.ict, And not be swayed by empty speech aud mere word- juggling tact. He wouud up with a " glowing aceuo'' that moistened every e^'o, And took hii seat to ' meditate on hia stupendous lie. —Tho CcnUiitry.

Cur.sTKKKiKM) (says the Gyajthir) can claim the ■di&tinction" of being the tit -.fc English town to adopt electricity wholly as a means of sheet lighting. The experiment baa been partially tried in numerous* other places, but gas has been in reserve in the event of an accident. At Chesterfield, however, the Corporation Inning disagieed with the Gas Company with! ve&pect to the .terms charged for the stieet lamps, concluded a contract with Messrs Hammond ami Co. to light the whole of the town, by means of arc and incandescent lamps for a' sum of .£BBO, -against £920 charged , for/ gas. The extent of strcctsallu initiated amounts to about nine miles, and these, are now lighted 'by means of 22 Brush., and 100 Lane Fox incandescent lamps: The electricity is conducted by means ofpverhead wires carried on» wooden - posts, which in many case&seive for lamp-pouts. I When not fixed on these the arc lights are placed on .iron standards, [Varying 'from 14 to "26ft in height, whiler.the »n^ candescent lamps are fixed at a distancJJ of 12\ft from the ground. The -latter" lights are placed , in a special iwpi of lamp, which consists of a , glass globe or bell similar to the old form ,pf street lamp. The arc lights ai c. .arranged in two circuits, so that every alternate lamp can be extinguished at midnight without affecting the remainder, jw'hile " cut outs'! are; provided for t tbe [incandescent lamps, so that should 'one meet with an accident . the others iwill not break down. . The electricity -is supplied from a central station, being, generated by. two dynamo machwes,, Known as " .Brush' forty lighters/ - each- one .being able to supply forty arc lights of }2000-candle-power, or one circuit, pi- 320 incandescent lights «of> 13icand]0-ppwer. Only one machine is nsedt at?' the r time, working the whole of .the. larnpf? J>y fifteen miles of wire. , -Tlje idyjiamo is driven by- one ofi Messrs John fowler and •Co.'s Yorkshire compound tiii^ineay, which is capable of developing 00-hprjae-^JOWer indicated. 1 .The reeult-of." t\\a} (venture is , t said <to u be. . | completly sat&f)t^ry, l the lights burning with grtiiitsgte.a|dj|;^B and brilliafflp.-, .3]h'e ,mai-k,et fjplac4'., ( wlucli covers ah area of 57}000ltin4||lg^d by an. lampr.'ofcrHgOUft-.c^Jle-power, iplaced^at a»,height of^2lf^', wjbbyt su,eli v effect tba-t a newspaper; ej»^ bfejte^K^ui,«»l.moitany^paHdmie^tea^^-^ - -"^'^