ORDER IN THE COURT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir — What a very silly person your Magistrate's Court's reporter must be to complain of lawyers addressing the Magistrate from tho end of the Clerk'B desk, and getting as close to tho Magistrate's ear as possible. At any hij»li-tone<l converbazione a person would not think of making a remark to the hostess by bawling at the top of his voice from the other end of the room, when he could creep up to her seat at the piano and whisper his ideas into her ear. An '" At Home" at Government House, a converHR/.ione at the Museum, or any other " chattering function," are" solemn silence all " in comparison to the legal conversazione that goes on each morning at tho Resident Magistrate's Court. Why, Eir, the Court is the place where solicitors go to in order to discuss a settlement, or get instructions from v client, and tho buzz of voices requires a Btrong throat and powerful lungs in order to make a speaker's voice heard Irom the solieitorH' table. I freely plead guilty to the chargo preferred by your reporter (except as to the detail of the gracefulness of attitude), and 1 am afraid shall continue to offend until some hard hearted Magistrate insists upon not more than three or four persons talking at the same time in Court. I am, &c, Hortensiub.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1892, Page 4
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229ORDER IN THE COURT. Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1892, Page 4
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