THE MOKAU ESTATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 91, 7 May 1901, Page 2

THE MOKAU ESTATE.

In connection with fb.3 cable announcing that M-. Jo*hua Jones' s licitoi bad been found guilty of misconduct regwdiog the Mokau fstat", the f< 1lowing from 'he L >ndon ro-resp-'ndar t of tin Otaijo Daily Times u of in'eres': Wl'6 her Mr. JVshm Jonfs s v ould lultima'ely succerd in his eft rts to re I'ovrr the Mokau estate and ti puni"h those wh. m ho deems to have Him, or not, he <vil' atnnytate have such sitiffac ion as may to t,h< j knowledge that trouble ia one way or ano'her eeems to hive befall'n each of his antigonis's. First the Hopkinsoos, the bankers who co-operate 1 with Mr. Wickham Flower in the origioal foreclosure of the Mokau property

fouad their bank forced into liqirditiuti by Mr. L .bouchere's firs* | article on the subject, Then Mr. Flower and hia partners Br em t' , have disagrted. At :>ny rate, the firm of Messrs Flower, Nusrey, and Fellowes dissolved, and various th'rjfts hippencd. Next Mr. Flower had to defend himself beforo the Law Society •igikst grave charges affecting hi.charact ras a solicito/*, and although acquitt»d by the society of any tvi 1 in'en', stands pretty decisively '■ fixsd' which is only extemntad on the ground that "he meant no barm." And now, wh le the acquittal itself is being app aled against he is me of the defendant to another ac'ion, this time made by his late partner, Mr. E. M. Fellowes, solicitor, of 1 Great Winchester sheet, who made a claim against M'ssrs Flower and Flower, eo'icitors, f Norfolk-street, S'rand, for £U 16s 61. Mr. Ralph B\nks appeared for the plaintiff, and MiLewis Thomas for the defendants. It was paid that a charge was made without foundation against tho defendants before the Incorporated Law Society by "rne Jones." The plaintiff was subpoenaed to attaDd the inquiry, which '' lusted for 12 days, and was of a viry heavy na'ure. He Dew sued the defendant frr his fees. Mr. Lswis Thomas 'ook the point that there was no liability on the defendants. They aeresusd as a firm. No firm of solicitors was responsible unless they had personally undertaken to pay the cos's i.f the witness called on behalf of a ) client. The person for whom the plain--1 iff w,is subpoenaed was Mr. Wickham Flower. The Deputy Judge thought i that the mat'er was one that should be 'nquired into before the Aesis'an* Rg ; stiar, who would have power to make the necessary amendments.