BENCH AND BAR.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 4

BENCH AND BAR.

The wit and oratory of tho Bench and Bar would fill—in fact, already does fill—volumes, and very choice much of it. Often the Bench scores, but norhaps- not less frequently dloes the Bar. Only recently. in the Bloomsbuv- County Court Judge Bacon ie-marked—"l-never feign judicial ignorance. I never pretend to bo more simple than I am." "That is so, your Honour," was the counsel's reply. A similar reply was made to Mr Justice Cave with equally laughable* results. Irritated by an irrepressible junior, the Judge cried out: "Mr So-and-so, I can teach you law, but I cannot toach you manners!" "That is so, my lord," was tho soft answer which did not turn away wrath.