Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 176

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That nice looking old gentleman Mr Macgregor, used to get “fearfully tight”. He on one occasion waited upon his worship Mr Bowen in his shirt sleeves. Mr Willcocks also, an erratic one, used to get “full up” sometimes when on duty. Mr Pritchard, one of the very early ones, did little business, he was chiefly known as riding a tall white horse.

In 1852 in Wellington, Judge Stephen fined Mr King, a solr. £20 for giving his client bad advice.

O.W. Oakes, a little pert Cockney attorney, had an office between B & Beattie and the corner. He went to the West Coast, and made money. Cleared for London & blossomed into a money lender. Before he left Edward Reece made him pay a rotten second mortgage he had taken on his a/c.