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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4198, 3 September 1874, Page 2

Not. a' very complimentary, description. ,of f the sharebrokers of Ballarat,* was'latfely given b^y .Judge tßoger's, in a case heard before him in the County" Court there. • He' 2 is reported to have said that, "All the,brokers fvfj the cornei: should! be in'"gaol," in consequence of Htieir villainousj practices." The brokers were naturally 'Very indignant ; they" met in solemn .state,; and denounced ,the,_ stateuvent of , the Judge 'as "'untrue' 1 and' 'unwarrantable.'' 1 The . chairman was desired to" communicate their decision to the Judge, and~to ' write to the Solicitor-General .tp. ask him Judge Bdgers to retract his " words. ■''■We 1 doubt , Whether the Solicitor-General will trouble himself" in] the affair, and, still more, whether His .Honor will recall his, opinion,,, He has,,had great opportunities J of forming' a -soimd "Judgment in the matter, and, probably, was not far wrong Tin his estimate of "Ballarat broking morality. •" "~. ~ , y .., ) , ~ ,