Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 252

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Bradwell, Compton of the Mitre, old Townshend the Bench clerk, lovingly called Jimmy, old Latter, Robert Waitt, Alport, familiarly called Bumblefoot, Urquhart Macpherson, little McCardell, the present member, Harry All-mighty then a boy. The old Magistrates Court and police quarters were on the site of the Schools, and there Dr Donald sate [sic] in state, his henchman being Seager, for so long at the Lincoln road mad house, and then a sort of corporal of police or something. He has always quartered on the Country. C.C. Bowen was then for a time Inspector of Police, and combined with that the Treasurership and used to rush over red hot with his steed on pay day. W. J.W. Hamilton came during one of those years, and got installed in the Customs, and be it stated, with bated breath, was cordially hated by every mercantile man and clerk in the place, is the essenceof a crotchetty red tape Tite Barnacle. He also was a great institution on the Bench of Justice. The Māories too had a resting place then on the cliff overlooking the beach somewhere opposite the Robin Hood and Mitre. It must be understood that in those days Lyttelton was headquarters, there, the Lyttelton Times was christened by James Edward Fitzgerald or the brothers Ward, later, one, the Hon. Crosbie, a man well liked, who went to his long home too early and snapped what promised to be a brilliant career. The Times was printed by the original Bradwell, at a