"BASHING" A WITNESS!
To the Editor of The Colonist,
Slit, —I was somewhat surprised this morning on reading in the Examiner a letter, signed "H. J. L. Augarde," finding fault with the wholesome and fatherly advice Mr. Justice Johnson gave the writer's son, and the writer himself. It was not the lad, but the father, who ought to have felt " bashed " (if I understand the intention of the slang) for sending a boy to ride about with a questionable character on a Sunday to act as accessory to a horse sale; lam sure, sir, that every father in Court who heard the Judge's remarks must have felt their justice and pertinence, and Mr. Augarde should have accepted the.sound morality they contained, and should have seen that, having made a serious mistake, it would have been better to have abstained from writing a letter which attempts to defend an unfatherly and an unwise proceeding. It is a pity, Mr. Editor, that you did not report the Judge's remarks, showing the grave error in sending a boy on such an errand on such a day, and it is a greater pity that the writer does not see that his son was ; altogether in a wrong place on a Sunday. I am, Sir, A Fatheb and a Spectatob. Nelson, 20th November.
[Want of space obliged us to curtail the report of the Court proceedings. The causes were trivial, and were condensed in order to make room for the Judge's charge to the Grand Jury, which was of more importance.—Ed.]
"BASHING" A WITNESS!
Colonist, Volume X, Issue 956, 23 November 1866, Page 3
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