AS IT SHOULD BE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3156, 15 May 1883, Page 3

AS IT SHOULD BE.

; . ;—: Mr J. F. Benjamin, Q. 0., an English barrister, has a judgeship awaiting him, when be recovers his health. The fob lowing letter shows the regard in which he is held by the Bar.— “ New Court Temple, Feb. 28. “My Pear Benjamin,—l have before me a document signed by almost every leading member of the English Bar, the contents of which I am requested to convey to yon. These old friends of yours are anxious that yon afford them, collectively, an opportunity of showing"their friendship toward* yon,

and they trust you will consent to be their guest on some occasion convenient to yourself. I hope you will understand theirreason for desiring thus to meet you. We do not forget how you came some seventeen years ago a stranger among us. We offered yon then no insincere welcome, and in return you bayo always during those years of yonr sojourn with us supported the honor and position of our profession, and have added much to the public estimation in which we are held. And so now when you leave us, your old associates are anxious to show and to tell you how much they valued the friendship they know that even now they have not lost.—l am, my dear Benjamin, yours most truly, “Hbney James.