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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 282, 5 December 1870, Page 2

In the Police-court to-day the divided sentiments of the justices occupying the bench gave rise to repeated scenes of an amusing and almost a " striking" kind. Both seemed gifted with no ir.considerablp am iunt of firm ness of character, which, combined «ith juduial views apparently diametrically opposed, resulted in warmth exhibited in higher tones than the U9ual sotto voice deliberations on the bench. The appeah to the Clerk of the Court, " Am I not right in my -^ieffs, Mr. Cunningham ? " proceeding from the presiding magistrate ; the lectures occasionally given to the magistrate assisting; the remarks addressed to the audience aud the reporters' box; the intervention of a learned counsel whose legal training aud instinctive sense of what is be coming, impelled him to interpose as amieus ettrice —all infused a sprightliness into the proceedings which was a relief to the usual (I ulnesa of tfye Court. The close of the judicial duties did not remove the pugnauity depicted in the countenances of the two justice 3, and "although the difficulty is temporarily removed by the adjournment of the cases for the afd of another magistrate, we would respectfully suggest to the. two magistrates that they should " settle it out of Court." A quiet piece might be selected, unimpeachable in its privacy ; not the " military reserve," where the pigs were straying, teterrima causa belli, but some place,. %\here not even Mr. Inspector Broham could intrude; and there the little matter might be arranged in a manner more satisfactory and becoming than an the bench.

The " Messiah" will be tho subject for pi'actice at the Music Eall to-morrow evening.

The monthly meeting of the Lodge Am. will be held in the Lodge Koorn this evening, at 7.30.

The general half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company will bo held, at tlie Company's office, on the 21st inst.

Mr. Cutts arrived from Napier yesterday, wif.li the racing horse Nebula.

A'musical and literary entertainment in connection with St. Sepulchre's Ckurch will be held at the Music Hall on Thursday next.