A HUMAN JUDGE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13421, 19 March 1914, Page 2

A HUMAN JUDGE.

Mr. Justice Bucknill, whose resignation is announced, once described himself as a born poacher. Once in Wales lie showed a friend how to "tickle"' trout. His movements were watch.-d by a local lad, and on returning to the neighbourhood the following year he was told the boy was in prison for "tickling" trout. Some time ago a reporter in Wales took his ten-year-old son to the assizes, at which Mr Justice Bucknill was presiding. The boy's interest in his father's work attracted the attention of the judge, who sent a note from the Bench addressed to "Ihe Little Boy by the Table," which read: ''I see a nice boy watching his father, and I send him a shilling for his money box.— T. L. Bucknill."