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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20041, 2 September 1920, Page 8

A Press Association telegram states that a country solicitor who is alleged to have failed to perform certain duties in connection with his business was tho defendant in resultant proceedings, before Mr Justice Cooper at the Supremo Court yesterday by the Auckland District Law Society. The Law Society’s application wag that defendant should be punished by the Cpurt for hji 3 alleged breach of professional duty. Dr Bamford appeared for applicants arid Mr Prendergast on behalf of tho solicitor in question. It was agreed to reserve tho whole matter for consideration of the Court of Appeal., His Honour suggested that as the practitioner had not yet been heard Ins name should not in the meantime be. made public. Tho homing pigeon that was carried across Cook Strait by Captain Dickson on the northern flight has returned to his wife and family at the Sockburn aerodrome. Tho bird should have been hoerated at Blenheim, but ho was forgotten in the hurry. A .“toss” at Trentham in the afternoon would havo given the pigeon no hope of finding his way back. Ho was liberated for an hour or two in a hut at Trentham, where he penciled on Captain Dickson’s finger and picked a few peas and had a drink. Then he was put back in his basket and sent south by tho ferry steamer. He Mas “ tossed ” off Lyttelton Heads, and reached his loft promptly. The pigeon a red chequer, is a young bird, but ho flow from Nelson last year. Ho has boon named Captain Cook.