SCENE IN A SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9669, 6 March 1897, Page 9

SCENE IN A SUPREME COURT.

; (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) A WELLINGTON, March 5. •^ani unusual scene occurred in theSupreme 'El k lB Tr m $- James cm-A a Erl* i 5° U v ght a claim n £ ain! *t the Governgfat, held by one Bowker, who sued the Lolonial Secretory and obtained judgment :3__^ n }f ,9r£9fla It*™ afterwards set ; ■*J ,Jon «"3 ground that the wrong person ■'■■''Z_-»_?-t -P arsor - now brought a suit ' Si the Registrar to compel him to'enord?- J-' dgment on the ground that the setting ,t aside was not before the «v» Z lho Chief Justice said the proceed- , 3„ w^ re P">P«r'y before the CourtT where- ' ktoii V ar . son * who appeared in person, ?*H»y msinted that he was quite wrong, and ***«•« him as to the proper method of S?J lur ?- . A mordy warfare followed, j£*«h culminated in the plaintiff asking his whether he was acting as solicitor »*Vthe defendant. The Judge threatened _wT__ mi * nim im contempt, and repeated jJJ threat later on. He finally dismissed Br___? , j I**1 '**^ 1 "--teen guineas costs, and then to comment on the conduct of tho and the waste of time and money Carson said the Judge, after !^ v, 8 the case, had no right to make such ; ff 1 ?' **•*" the plaintiff could not reply, and *«y talked hia Honour down.