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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 8

In Chambers some financial matters connected with the divorce case of Moulden versus. Moulden, . James , Young, and another, •co - respondents, havo just come before Mr Justice Ward on interpleader summons. His Honor, after fully considering the matter, ordered that the deputy sheriff' should withdraw from possession ,of goods belonging to Ellen ifoung (the claimant) and that the judgment creditor should, pay the solicitor of the claimant L 3 3s tfith costs out of pocket, and that he" should also pay the sheriff's expenses of. possession.::. \

, Tho members of the local Bar are not deeply impressed with the profundity of the legislative sagacity for which the colony pays at the rato of something like L 50,000 a year. The. Banco at the Supreme Court this morning the Mining Companies Act of 188G, formed the subject of sovoral knotty questions of law. Mr Button denounced the measure as most slovenly and contradictory, and at a later stage of the argument the samepreciouspiece of legislation was iref erred to as "a terrible, mess."/ His Honor admitted its contradictoriness and ambiguity. He added, "It is very difficult to got iat what Mr Button facetiously j formedtho mind of the Legislature."