ALMOST A STRIKE.
WHERE WERETHE LAWYERS? The legal fraternity deserted the halls of justice this morning for the cricket field, and when the Court officer began to call out the lengthy list of cases only three lawyers were in attendance. .. • ■• It appeared that someone should have arranged something—probably an adjournment—but the clerk kept on colling out tho cases. After a few moments the lawyers having seemed judgment or an adjournment, as tiio case might be, left tho Court, so that the only people in it besides the Magistrate and the officers Avere the reporters. The Magistrate did not appear to enjoy the "position and appeared to think that there had been negligence somewhere. Then another lawyer drifted, in, only to explain that counsel engaged in certain cases had agreed to some adjournment and so on. Left again in legal loneliness, the Magistrate decided to adjourn the business until Monday, so as to keep Lhe cases "alive," adding: "The person that should know most about what happens here, and that's myself, knows least."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11030, 19 March 1914, Page 5
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172ALMOST A STRIKE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11030, 19 March 1914, Page 5
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