BREEZE IN COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 271, 15 November 1910, Page 2

BREEZE IN COURT.

The order and general decorum of the Magistrate's Count was disturbed this morning !by a brief ipaesage-atkirms between Mr. C. C. Kettle, iilL, and Mr. C. J. Schnaaxer. 'Hie affair took its origin in a very long and unwholesome case, in which Mr. Sctaauer Jias been acting for one of the parties. Acting in the capacity of counsel, ho ■wrote a. letter (to Mr. Kettle. Tikis letter the Magistrate considered to be a demand for a decision in ihis client's favour, and this morning foe traversed all ifche facts of the case, including the letter, concluding toy characterising it "a most objeotionaiWo letter "to •write to a. magistrate." Mr. Schnauer rose to speak, and said that the •wished to explain, but the Magistrate said itha.t ihe -would not hear him on the matter. Mr. Sehnauac made ■one or two such attempts to speak, but eventually he was told to sib down. Mr. Sdrnaaier was evidently smarting under what 'he considered harsh treatment, and he ueed -the word "unfair." Whereupon the Magistrate ordered him to show cause, at itSie conclusion of the sitting of the Court, wihy he should not ,be eomanitted for contempt. Subsequently Jt -was arranged that his Worship would hear Mc Sahnauer. on Tueeday nest. . . v