EAGER LITIGATORS.
love of litigation is, .it is said,. .;'■& .national characteristic of as, indeed, the prosperity wsog&wHawyevß goes far to prove — but it seems to swell to downright gmjSijbmania. A clergyman . has at-; |||tempted to convict a manufacturer of i|p|||jvHpg '' for " Bmiling "at his sarand for observing, after the that "they looked very theif night-gowna. 1 ' This seems alight offence (as, indeed, the have decided) to invoke the the law about ; but no prosecutor ,waa acting in what ' l^^^thqught to be the public interest. j^fenaftshall we aay, however, of abaxrister ■j^pgißumnionß an omnibus conductor for ■Pauling him admittance into his vehicle ' [H sufficient ground of his Hj One would really H i^P^tliat, most people, would, on ■I^pction^ '-and- " the next morning," Bi ; up iwith such ah inconvenience it the ground of public instead of which the man of the charge,, and elicits th» a dozen other conductors " him oit. the same day in the and outrageous fors6oth, " they had their' vohiclea,' and iie was to travel in a public There uiust be really . attraption about going to irresistible to some folks. utterly inexplicable to others.— Talk.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7197, 24 June 1885, Page 4
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186EAGER LITIGATORS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7197, 24 June 1885, Page 4
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