JUDICIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 8136, 8 February 1890, Page 2

JUDICIAL.

We learn that Mr Kettle yesterday after noon wired to the Government intimating his acceptance of the office of District Judge and Resident Magistrate for New Plymouth in succession to Judge Rawson, transferred to luvercargill. Mr Charles Cargill Kettle, who was born on the 4th June, 1850, at Littlebourne, Dunedin, is the eldest son of the late Charles Henry Kettle, so well known in connection with the early history of New Zealand, and more particularly with the formation of the Ofcago settlement. He was educated at Nelson College, and subsequently (in Mr Simmonds's time) at the Otago High School; was articled to the late James Macassey, barrister, in June, IS6S, and was admitted a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand on July 14, 1573. Mr Kettle commenced business immediately afterwards, joining Mr Macassey in May, l_B7n, and has been practising in Dunedin since then. In his younger days he was an excellent athlete, and has represented his province in cricket against Canterbury. No doubt the fact that the legal profession has not been so flourishing here of late years has been a consideration which influenced so old a member of it as Mr Kettle to accept the position oi District Judge. During his long professional career he has won the deserved respect of all with whom he has been brought into contact.