THE NEW JUDGE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4912, 22 January 1889, Page 3

THE NEW JUDGE.

Mr John Edward Denniston, who has just received the appointment of Supreme Court Judge for the Canterbury district, was born at Bishopstown, near Glasgow, in 1845. He was educated partly at Glasgow and at Greenock Academies, and at the boarding school of Blair Lodge, near Falkirk, after which he completed his education at Glasgow University. Mr ?Dennistou’s career in all his school days was a brilliant one, and in his last year at Greenock Academy ho was gold medallist as best scholar in classics and mathematics. At Glasgow University be gained a valuable scholarship open to all students from the populous counties of Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. At College he commenced to study for the Bar, but was interrupted by his leaying for Hew Zealand, in company with his father (Mr Tiros. Dennis ton, of Invercargill) and brothers in 1862. On his arrival in the colony he entered the Civil Service, joining the FostJOffice Department first in Invercargill and afterwards in Christchurch, but after a few months work hclcft the Public Service for that of the Bank of New South Wales, in which he served for upwards of six years. During the latter part of this time he read law steadily, and qualified himself for the position he obtained in the office of Mr Stewart, solicitor, just then vacated by Mr (now Sir) Eobert Stout. Oh the expiry of his artie’es, and on being admitted as a solicitor, after a most satisfactory examination, Mr Denniston joined Mr George Hutchinson in practice at Wanganui for a few months, but afterwards rejoined Mr Stewart in Dunedin as a partner. Mr Allan Holmes shortly afterwards also joined the firm. On the opening of the Otago University Mr Denniston attended the Latin and mental philosophy classes, becoming a prize man in both.