OAMARU.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2003, 5 June 1875, Page 2

OAMARU.

''■ Friday. }, Scene in the Oamaru Licensing J Court . I The Licensing Court sat on Tuesday ! and Wednesday. The teetotallers, after j a great struggle, presented a memorial j with 210 signatures, which was not re-j ceived, as such signatures were insufficient, and were rejected, as also the ojections to the licenies,. because not lodged early enough. A nice scene occurred in Court between two lawyers. Mr Julius made most personal comments on Mr O'Meagher's mode of conducting causes the first day, which ( nrew forth laughter from the crowd in Court, but not from the Bench. .He said-Mr O'Meagher should have a patent slopped lemonade bottle down his throat, so that his virtuous indignation might be kept down until some person knocked in the plug and let gas out at the proper time. : Mr O'Meagher replied, in a severe but dignified speech. He said Mr Julius had been personally abusive without a shadow of reason, and it was beneath the dignity of the bar to address remarks ostensibly to the Bench, but really intended for editors and the admiration of the mob outside the rails of the court. The re; mark about thofstopper was vulgar chaff, and Mr Julius had looked round for, and was more pleased with the illsuppressed j titters of the mob, than the approving smile of the Bench. He warned Mr Julius that he might go too far, and said the reason was obvious to the court why^ he did not retort in a manner which would be unpleasant to Mr Julius. Next day Mr Julius was about to allude to the retort when the chairman said it would be more agreeable to the Bench to hate no reference to the former days proceedings. 1 ■-. : Mr O'Meagher ..said he hai a reputation in the Court^aii attack upon which he should always resent. \ It is generally"/considered that Mr Julius' personal attack was most intemperate and in bad taste: Mr O'Meagher's reply was dignified and gentlemanly. All applications but one were granted. Yesterday was a close holiday and Presbyterian fast day. s .