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New Zealand Tablet, 7 March 1912, Page 9

On Monday last (says the Melbourne Advocate of February _ 24), some unwise or ill-advised people attempted in the Practice Court, before his -Honor Mr. Justice Hood, to obtain the release of a girl from the convent at Abbotsford, where she had been for the last twelve months, on the ground that she was detained against her will. The legal advisers of the applicants (the father and the sister of the girl) were Messrs. Snowball and Kaufmann. The proceeding was peremptorily stopped by the girl herself making an affidavit stating that she desired to remain in the convent. Besides this, Mr. Justice Hood questioned the young woman privately in his chambers, and, on his return into court, said the young woman desired to go back to the convent. He discharged the order, nisi .for,, habeas corpus with costs. 1 Perhaps the case just decided by Mr. Justice Hood (and the costs) will- tend to make members of the legal profession absolutely sure of their facts' before they seek a decision in the Supreme Court such as has just been refused. * i\