Untitled

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5462, 30 April 1889, Page 2

Judge Burton yesterday administered a severe rebuke to a lawyer and his client who came before the Court with applications. The client applied for shares on a lease, which it appears he made to himself from a Company of which hewas director. The Judge told the lawyer that he should well knowthat a director of a company, who was supposed to be working for the interests of the shareholders, could not construct, a lease to himself against the interests of the Company. His Honor gave it to be understood that he would have no " bogus law " and " try-ons " in the Court. A great deal of the time of the Assessment Court this afternoon was occupied with objections of Sir George Whitmore. Sir George had been rated for 51 30 acres, and following this the sections embracing this were also added to the total, so that Sir Geo. was rated for the 5130 acres twice. He complained that he was compelled to ride 100 miles, with much inconvenience, to rebut a purely clerical error, which might have been rectified with a stroke of the pen. Sir George got the desired correction made, and then applied for his expenses under sections 72 and To. The Board did not see that he w;is entitled to expenses. Sir George claimed that he was, and threw out an ofFer to the legal profession that any of them were invited to take his ease up, and the costs they could get out Government he would devote to the ',Tisbornc Hospital. A man named O. S. Brodie has been committed for trial on the charge of .•setting tire to several stacks of hay at Masterton.