MANHIRE IN THE MUCK.

NZ Truth, Issue 161, 18 July 1908, Page 6

MANHIRE IN THE MUCK.

Tile J.P. and the . Quack-Quack, i v !£be remarkable individuals who succeed.; m- "becoming J.P/s from time to time-, •bring the Great Unpaid profession, into* ' (glaring disrepute. . B. P. Manhire, of Sydlenhaan, frequently adjudicates on the POr?; lice Court . Bench, a scandalous circum- ' •stance m the light of Manhire's recent. ex- : perience m a Court case m which he was'; •defendant. The ignorant ; Justice has a : < neighbor named P. J. P. Hem, some of" whose ducksi disappeared fin an unaccounfov 'able manner lately. Three of these qhack-. ; , ers were traced to _J_Gajthice?s premiseaandy Hern spoke with suck viotencD on the subject that. the unmanly biEdswere lib,-, eratcd and made theif way home y again. They , disappaared later, however, but as; iSeJcrt set up a huet-anatkcry, waddled home one day, with the exertion of one webfooted swimmer, wifioh reinained at Man- ' •hire's pla.ce under conqiulsioh. Hern pro? . ceededl to lay ana iuformatton for theft, but ci__c_mgt__4a_atss (probably includingManhir^s J.P.-d^») impelled the police to advise Hem tq proceed against his enemy /civilly, but not necessarily with : civility. Lawyer Donnelly prosecuted,, and ;found his labor easy owing — TO T_HE AWFUL;. MESS j made of Ms case hy toe sbme-tiine Magis* j . trate. Hern •' adduced evidence identifying | jifche duck as his,, and claimed 12s- Gd or 1 jlits return. On the other hand Manhire j ;sworts that he bied the duck eighteen ■j; months previously. He called Mrs ManVhire, who was equally certain that hubby had bought thp duck,- "No," replied .Manhire, . stormily,' to his own witness, "I bred the duck." "You can stand down," he added; eyeing his better half .isternly. Manhire then called his son, who wasn't sure about the duck's origin, ; but thought Pa had brought it home. "That gives the show away completely,"'' commented ton distracted J.P,., and judgment was given ' against him. There was probably a hot time m Manhire's house that night. The value of the duck was plabetl at 5s by the magistrate ; but a pertinent ouestion to &sk m the circumstance is, ''\!?hy t is not ManWire being prosecuted for perjury?" Manhire, who is chairman of Christ' church Charitable Aid Board and a mem. her of the Heathcote ' Road Board, has a prosperous painting business, and it dhows the cussedness of tlie' men, when Hern had to take but a distress warrant to recover his Court expenses,.;