A TREAT IN STORE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1205, 2 January 1875, Page 16

A TREAT IN STORE.

We hear that at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, lively as that institution has been of late, its attractiveness as a source of amusement to the public is likely " to eclipse all previous efforts." We are certainly in the height of New Year festivities, and the Synod of Otago and Southland does meet in a fortnight, and the English Opera Company has conimeucfid to play, and Val Vos>e is here ; but still we are safe in predicting a complete and total eclipse to all these in a certain libel case which we are informed is set down for hearing. The case is a political one, and of course everyone must take an interest in it ; and amongst the dramatis personai will be, we understand, several past and present members of the Provincial Executive, the Honourable the Speaker, the Provincial Auditor, and a perfect host of other great men. The spectacle will no doubt be edifying, as disclosing to the vulgar herd a little peep behind the scenes as to how we are governed ; but we cannot help thinking that Provincial institutions are low enough already, and in bad enough odour, without its friends dragging up its dirty linen to be washed before everybody. The fun, however, will no doubt be immense, only we hope we won't be on that Special Jury, as, if one-half of what it is said is to be elicited is raked up of old squabbles in Executive and Provincial Council meetings, these twelve jurymen have a month's work cut out for them. Of course we speak without a perfect knowledge of the merits of the case ; at the same time, knowing what we do, we cannot but think it right to express a desire that the public should be spared the expose which would result from the case going before a jury.