PRIMITIVE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
Mr T. McKenzie, the oldest resident in Wellington, in the course of a lecture on the early days, said that in the first marriage celebrated in Wellington the bridegroom was an Irish colonist and the marriage was celebrated in real Irish fashion, one of the guests being laid up tor two months from a blow on the head inflicted with a tomahawk. The parties proxeeded to get redress, and as the Court was badly in want of funds the Magistrate impartially fined each of the witnesses £1, while the bridegroom had to pay £2. According lo the Magistrate the latter was the cause of the quarrel, because if he had not got married there would have been no trouble.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9816, 27 August 1897, Page 5
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