HAWERA NEWS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
April 25.
The first football match of the season was plajcd on the cricket ground on Saturday, the weather being all that could be desired. Teams respoeting the Bush mid Open respectively, wero picked on tho ground. The result of tho match was a draw, each side scoring a try. Mr C. E. Major captainocl tlio Opon team, and Mr A. Bayley the Bush,
I understand that groat rotrenohment is about to take place in the Now Plymouth Harbour Board. This is surely like " locking tho stablo door when tho steed is stolen."
In the R.M. Court on Monday, a largo numbor of rato cases were called on, tho sums involved ranging from Is 3d to 2s Od, tho Court fees amounting in tho majority of cases to over 255.
This rotronching Government instead of pa) ing the bailiff a salary ns in civilisod districts, only pays its bailiff by fho nulcngo fees. Tho poor bailiff under this mothod grow 60 thin that his mother fl ould not know him. When tho undor-seuretary conic through tho district somo months ago he is sind to have boon so shocked at this monstrous inhumanity that in a hysterical /it ho i«sned a circular ordering (lint, c\cn whoro tho bailiff sor\cs tho defendant at tho Court door, ho shall charge mileage us if ho had v alked tho 20 miles to defendant's rosidonco. Since tho now rule the bailiff's mother has reeognisod him, and it does ono good to look at him. Nevertheless tho ehargo is an iniquitous robbory on tho part of tho Government. [Our correspondent is not evidently not awnro that this has been tho practice for years.] No cases of public interest have been heard lately in the Courts here — oxcopt the latest phaso of tho Irednle - shootingdivorco case. As nill be remembered tke Divorce Court awarded tho injured husbsmd £300 damages; the defendant, howover, has never paid, and all at tempt b to obtain payment, have failed. Under theso circumstances a petition was presented by McLean, thoi husband, to abdicate Irodalo a bankrupt. The matt or camo befoi o tho District Court clerk, when tno obidotions wero raised 1 1. That damages awi>rdec| by » Divorce Court did not constitute n good petitioning debt. 2 That theso bankruptcy proceedings had boon taken to sh'llo litigution by Ircdalo to reverso tho decision of tho Divorce Court. Trodales counsel asked for two hours adjournment to got a necessary witness to establish the second proposition. This was was refined, mid lie was Uicro ai\d then iibjucufeil bankrupt. I say nothing of tho mei'it, bui- it docs soem absurd to give such powers to a joung gentleman Mhoiimy nitli credit hold tho ofllce of clerk, and yet know nothing of law. Why not give tho "power to the crier of the Court, or cheaper still to tho lady who sweeps out tho balls of justice. It is very grntiijing to note that the flax industry which was languishing on this coast has taken a now departure. Several mills are in lull working order to the north of Hawem, and others in the course of construct ion. Tenders oloscd yc&tcrilay for tho stoek-in-tmlo of W. L. England's bankrupt stock. Another instance of tho havoc done to ouv business men by the credit system,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6495, 25 April 1888, Page 2
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554HAWERA NEWS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6495, 25 April 1888, Page 2
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