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Cheerful Yesterdays

Index

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Index

  • Abbans, Count d', 93
  • Acclimatisation Society, 162
  • Achurch, Miss Janet, 94
  • Alexandra, H.M. Queen, 9
  • Alpets, The Hon. O. T. J., birth, vii, 8; early days, 4; appointment to Judgeship, 4, 48, 155, 339; bi-national, 8; meets King Christian IX of Denmark, 911; reaches Napier, 20; "Mary" and his lamb, 24; friendly butcher boy,. 241; intellectual development, 27, 28, 39, 40; family fortunes, 29; signboard painting, 30, 31; Euclid, 33; loses a friend, 35; astronomy, 36; pupil teaching, 38; teaches German, 47; student at Canterbury College, 4965, 139; the Dialectic Society, 52; night classes, 53; punishes a profiteer, 53, 54; Will o' the Wisp Club, 5 5; lure of the stage, 56, 94; stage hands, criticism of, 59, 60; reads for honours, 60; criticism of methods of instruction, 62, 63; copy of ".King Lear," 63, 64; on schoolmasters, 67, 70, 71; on staff of Christchurch Boys' High School, 69, resigns from, 146; on examiners, 73, 74; jokelets, 75; an organist, 76; corporal punishment, 76, 77; "Old Boys" and the Great War, 78; "Some Memories," 7983; on staff of Christchurch Press, 84; proof-readers, 87; anecdotes of Parliament, 8993; actors and actresses, 94, 95; Charles Warner and, 95; J. L. Toole and, 98, 99; Samuel Butler and, 101, 102; correspondence, 104108; correspondent for the Morning Post, 112; marriage, 118; twenty years' negotiation about a magazine article, 117- 120; a mistaken lecturer, 121, 122; Van der Velden and, 123, 126; tests the Temple of Truth, 133; studies law, 139, 144; a "cribbing" incident, 141- 143; the Bar his goal, 144; types of lawyers, 144; F. H. Bruges and, 145; practising in Timaru, 146; first affidavit, 147; quarterly sessions, 148; too sympathetic jury, 149150; a Salvation Army convert, 151- 153; civil case in Supreme Court, 154; commended by Mr. J. H. Hosking, 155; first case in Magistrates' Court, 156; a mining case, 157159; a "beak" slumbers, 160; Maories and, 162, 163; barrister and solicitor, 165; briefs of the Public Trust Offices, 166; first criminal client, 167; a record morning in decrees nisi, 169; first libel action, 171174; "leading cases," 176; unique statute, 178182; "good form" in the profession, 189; Judge Denniston and, 190, 191; unrepentant cattle stealer, 194197; on sentences, 199, 200; on cross-examining, 203, 204, 207, 216; a sharp lesson, 204, 205; an ill-judged question, 206; briefs, 209, 210; action against a surgeon, 210, 211; an "insurance mind," 211, 212; expert witness, 212215; a tenancy case, 217221; juries, 224, 227229; verdict according to evidence, 229231; on challenging, 232; angry with a judge, 238; gravel rash, 239, 240; a kiss and a steamer ticket, 240242; "special" to Hoki-tika, 244; crime as a profession, page 366254; Counsel for two pickpockets, 257260; employs "German Charlie," 260262; visits Sydney; on the films, 266; Counsel for Sammy Haines, 268; Parkinson, 271273, 281, 282; defends a murder case, 284299; at trial of T. Hall, 316; simultaneous appointments, 341; vox ludi, 343; compared with J. Conrad, 344; fourth and last profession, 344, 345; a book on cqntemporary. history, 346; concern as to effect on life of new appointment, 347, 348; gift of making friends, 349
  • Amalienborg, garden of, 10, 12
  • Apia Harbour, 192
  • Appleton & Co., D., 349
  • Arson, a case of, 222, 233
  • Attalus, King of Pergamus, 114
  • "Babe, B.A.," 266
  • Bain's Rhetoric, 44, 73
  • Ballance, Rt. Hon. John, 85; ministry of, 89
  • Balsgàard School, Copenhagen, 29
  • Bandmann, Herr, as Hamlet, 42
  • Barnett, Mr. M. C, 165
  • Beard, station cook, 308
  • Bell, Hon. Sir Francis, 342
  • "Bell's Baths," Sumner, 300
  • Bevan-Brown, M.A., C. E., 721
  • Billington, with J. L. Toole, 98
  • Bismarck, Prince, 127
  • Black, Prof., 320
  • Boer War, effect on O. T, J. Alpers, 8
  • Bohn's Translation, debate on, 63
  • Bookman, the, 347
  • Boucicault, Mr. Dion, 95
  • Bowen, Hon. Sir Charles, 88
  • Broham, Inspector, 332
  • Brosnahan, Mr. Timothy, 156
  • Brough, Robert, 95
  • Brown, Prof. John Macmillan, "Jowett" breakfasts with, 52; influence of—in Canterbury Coll., 61; appoints O. T. J. Alpers as assistant, 65
  • Bruges, Mr. F. H., 145
  • Burnham, Viscount, in New Zealand, 112
  • Bums, Tommy, prize-fighter, 265
  • Butler, Samuel, 88, 101; works of, presented to Christchurch Public Library, 102; correspondence with O. T. J. Alpers, 104; Ishmaelitic position, 107; Sir J. von Haast, 107; in New Zealand, 108; character, 110, 123, 243
  • Cain, Miss Kate Emily, 317; see also, Hall, Mrs.
  • Cain, Capt. Henry, 317; death of, 331; body exhumed, 332; circumstances of death, 333
  • Calliope, H.M.S., 193
  • Cameron, Mr., of Te Oreore Station, 307
  • Campbell, "Chummy," 82
  • Canterbury Association, minutes from records of, 70
  • Canterbury University College, 44; O. T. J. Alpers at, 51; second decade of history of, 51; influence of J. M. Brown, 61; students of 611, 66; Sir J. Williams on Board of Governors of, 198
  • Cathie, Mr. A. E., 102
  • Chapman, Hon. Sir Frederick, 292; Counsel for T. Hall, 333
  • Christchurch, eccentrics at, 121; vicissitudes of a Lutheran Church, 127, 128; A. B. Worthington in, 128135; Sir J. S. Williams in, 198; Racing Carnival in, 257; murder in, 283
  • Christchurch Press, Alpers on Staft of, 84
  • Christchurch Public Library, presentation to, 102
  • Christchurch Teachers' Training College, 44; Alpers at, 49
  • Christian IX, King, of Denmark, 9, 17
  • Christian X, King, of Denmark, 342
  • Christ's College Grammar School, 7. Cicero, 342
  • Clarendon Press, 62, 63
  • Clayton, Monty, 82
  • Cleary, gaoler, and German Charlie, 260, 261
  • Colborne-Veel, J. Veel, 88
  • Colborne-Veel, Miss, 108
  • Colenso, Rt. Rev. John W., Bishop of Natal, 39
  • Colenso, Rev. William, 39, 353l
  • Connal, Prof. Benjamin, 611
  • Cooke; see Kinloch-Cooke
  • Copenhagen, birth of Judge Alpers, page 367vii; courtesy in, 16; Tivoli
  • Gardens, 17; Shakespearean plays in, 28, 29
  • "Count" the, 247
  • Cowlishaw, Mr. F. I., 340
  • Currie, Tom, 82
  • d'Abbans, Count, 93
  • Danes, drink and, 1315; courtesy, 16; names, 1. 1
  • Darwin, Charles, W. Colenso and, 40; "Erewhon" and, 106
  • Deanses, the, 82
  • Denmark, and politics of Europe, 9; and suicides, 13, the Stage in, 29; O. T. J. Alpers, appointed Hon. Consul for, 341
  • Denniston, Hon. Sir John, 190; criticism of, 191, 192, 194, 197; "Mr. Mahoond" and, 192; Bar at Westport, 193, 194; conviction of arson, 222, 223, 226; Counsel for T. Hall, 333
  • Divorce in New Zealand, 168
  • Domett, C.M.G., Alfred, 241
  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 128
  • Dunedin, Sir J. Denniston in, 221; trial of T. Hall in, 332
  • Education, 36, 37, 62
  • Ellison, Mrs., maternity nurse, 319
  • Elsinore, tourists at, 12
  • Emden, the, 80
  • Empire Press Delegation, 112
  • "Empire Review, The," 93; O. T. J. Alpers contributes to, 112
  • Englishmen and courtesy, 16
  • Ennius, Q., 1041
  • "Erewhon," 103105, 109, 243
  • Falsier, S.S., 3
  • Fitchett, Dr., 92
  • Fitzgerald, Rt. Hon. James Edward, 88
  • Frith, Mr. j. P., 265
  • Gallagher, Joe, 246
  • Garrick and Company, 340
  • Garsia, Oliver, 80
  • Garsia, Lieut.-Comrnander "Ru," 79
  • George I, H.M. King, of the Hellenes, 9
  • "German Charlie," and Gaoler Cleary, 260; marries, 262; buried swag, 263; sold! 264
  • Godfrey, Elisha, 303; arrested, 309
  • Gosse, Sir Edmund, 29
  • Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, 113
  • Greenwood, Prof. Leo, 611
  • Grey, Sir George, 3531
  • Guthries, the, 82
  • Haakon, King of Norway, 9
  • Haast, H. F., 57
  • Haast, Sir Julius von, 107
  • Haggett, Mr. B, C, 332
  • Haines, "Sammy," horsecoper, 264; and the Babe, B.A., 266, 267; convicted for manslaughter, 268
  • Hall, Thomas, murderer, 315; reputation of, 317; 319321; motive, 322324; trial, 325330; trial for murder of Capt. Cain, 332335; question reserved, 335337; imprisonment and release, 337, 338
  • Hall, Mrs. T., birth of child, 318; illness, 318321; recovery, 321
  • "Hamlet," 12, 13, 42, 46
  • Handbook for New Zealand, 70
  • Hansen, Bootmaker, 30, 31
  • Harper, Gordon, 79; the Happy Warrior, 81
  • Harper, Robin, 79
  • Haslam, Prof. F. W.,57
  • Hawke's Bay, Province of, 3; place-and street-names, 241
  • Hawtrey, Sit Charles, 95
  • Hay, Ian (Major Ian Hay Beith), 67
  • Hay, Mr. James, 316
  • Heatherley, Mr., 105
  • Herald, the Auckland, 344
  • Herbert, Mr. A. P., 112
  • Hicks, Mr. Seymour, 342
  • Hogg, Dr., 332
  • Hokitika, and the mining rush, 243; a swindle, 244247
  • Holmes, Mr., 310
  • Homebush Sales, 271
  • Houston, Margaret. Graham, 316;
  • arrest of, 328; released, 330
  • Howard, Arthur Rannage, 300; "drowned," 301
  • Howard, Mrs. Sarah, and the Insurance Companies, 302; and the mysterious stranger, 306; arrested, 309
  • Hubbard, Elbert, 249
  • Hundausen, Dr., 3571
  • Hunter, Prof., 50page 368
  • Irvine, Prof., R. F., 691, 346
  • Irving, Mr. H. B., 95
  • Jenson, Watchmaker, 30, 31
  • Johns, Miss, Capt. in Salvation Army, 151, 152
  • Johnson, Miss, 98
  • Johnson, Hon. Mr. Justice, 183; and javelin men, 184; at Penny Readings, 185; and a cabby, 186, 187; and a deaf prisoner, 187, 188; and trousers, 188; at trial of T. Hall, 316, 322
  • Jones, Mr. Festing, 104
  • Joynt, Mr. T. I., Counsel for A. R. Howard, 310; death of, 314; Counsel for T. Hall, 316
  • Juries, too sympathetic, 149, 150; 224; a sensible foreman, 226; example of an earnest, 227229; good sportsmen, 236; a stupid jury, 239, 240
  • Kinloch-cooke, Sir Clement, 93, 112
  • Knubley, Mr. M. J., 147
  • Kumara, New Zealand, 243; Sir J. Seddon on Road Board of, 249
  • Land Laws, an Historical Parallel, 113115
  • Law QuarterlyI the, 140
  • Law times, the, 140
  • Lawrences, the, 82
  • Legal Profession, in New Zealand, fusion of the professions, 143; the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, 155; etiquette, 189; slovenly attire, 190; sentences, 199; cross examinations, 203, 209; juries, 225; See also Juries.
  • Legislation, a statute unique in history of, 178182
  • Lodge, Sir Oliver, 128
  • Lombroso School, theorists of, 254
  • London, Mr. and Mrs. Jack, 265
  • Louise, H.M. Queen, of Denmark, 9
  • Lowndes, Mr., with J. L Toole in New Zealand, 98
  • Lunn, Herr Ove, 341
  • McAllister, Mr., 272
  • McIntyre, Dr. Patrick, physician to Hall family, 318, 321; swears information against Hall, 327, 328; remembers death of Capt. Cain, 331
  • Mackenzie, Sir john, 91; and Land laws, 113
  • Macpherson, Alexander, 222
  • Makin, baby farmer, 337
  • Mantell, W. B. D., 92
  • Maori, Wars, 3, land tenure, 162
  • Maoris, Rev. W. Colenso and, 40; O. T. J. Alpers and, 116, 162; lawsuits, forging, 164; Celtic vein, 353, 357; compared with Irish peasantry, 354, 360; characteristics, 354; chivalry, 355; law of hospitality, 356; anecdotes of, 354, 356, 3571; names, 357, 358; music, 358360; "tangi," 354, 359; fairies, 360; mythology of, 361; tale of the mountain lovers, 362; legend of dog stealing, 364
  • Marris, Sir William, 66
  • Martin, Mr. J. c., 316
  • Martin Simonsen Opera Company,42
  • Masefield, John, 197
  • Mataura, S.S., wreck of, 50
  • Maude, Mr. Cyril, 95
  • Maude, "Jogger" 83
  • Mayne, George, 82
  • Merchant Taylors' School, 41
  • Mesopotamia, S. Butler's sheep run, 108
  • Metrograph Film Company. Los Angeles, 171
  • Milne, Mr. A. A., 39
  • Mining, gold rush, 243; old miners' tales, 244; a swindle, 244246; raspberry tarts, 247, 248; growth of mining towns, 249; "John" and "Sandy," 250, 252
  • Monthly Review, New Zealand, 95
  • Morning Post, the O. T. J. Alpers, Dominion correspondent for, 112
  • Motutaiki, Island of, legend of, 362
  • Müller; See von Müuller
  • Murray, David, Christie, 94
  • Names, Danish, 181; of Hawke's Bay 24; Maori, 357, 358
  • Napier, vii; Judge Alpers on Bench of Supreme Court at, 4; Port of, 20; proctor visits, 36; Judge Johnson at, 184
  • Napier District School, O. T. J. Alpers a pupil teacher at, 38, 48
  • National Gallery, the, 125
  • Nesfield, owner of livery stable, 186page 369
  • New Zealand, Govt. grant to Mrs. Alpers, ix 1; Parliament, passes Education Act, 36; University of, 50; Party feeling in, 85; anecdotes of politicians, 89; first Premier of, 88; House of Representatives, 89; Samuel Butler in, 108; Empire Press Delegation visit, 112; an Historical Parallel, 113115; legal profession in, 143, 155;. Mr. Alpers and the Magna Charta of, 163; divorce in, 1681; motor cars in, 175; police force of, 205; inspectors of Public Service, 207; racing, 233, 234
  • New Zealand, H.M.S., 79
  • New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century,691, 346
  • Ngata, Sir Apirana Turupu, 65
  • Nineteenth Century and After, 112
  • North Carolina, Governor of, 15
  • Norway, H.M. King Haakon of, 9
  • Noxious weeds, 91, 92
  • Ogston, Dr., pathologist, 332
  • O'Halloran, Mrs. Bridget, 156
  • Palmerston North, libel action at, 232236
  • Parkinson, 269; confidence man, 270; deal in ewes, 271; and Mr. McAllister, 272; fears a "Kath," 274; dines with a Headmaster, 275, 276; the Hustlers and, 277281; land stock agent, 282
  • Parliament, 36, 89
  • Perry, Mr., 332
  • Police Force, 205
  • Pomeroy, Miss Louise, 42
  • Proctor, Richard A., lectures at Napier, 36
  • Public Service, inspectors of, 207
  • Public Trust, 165
  • Racing, 234
  • Raymond, K.C., Mr. S. G., 292
  • Reese, Andrew, 82
  • Reeves, Mr. W. P., and chamois, 91, 3531
  • Reeves, Mrs. W. P., 65
  • Reid, "Rosseau," 82
  • Rolleston, Hon. F. J., 65
  • Rome, land laws in ancient, 113, 114
  • Ruahine Mountains, 22
  • Ruapehu, volcano, 361; legend of, 362
  • Russell, H.M.S., 80
  • Russia, Empress of, 9
  • Rutherford, O.M., Sir Ernest, 66
  • Salmond, Sir John, 155; an anecdote, 201
  • Salvation Army, a convert of, 151- 153; a juror, 228, 229
  • Sass, Edward, 95
  • Scotsman, the, 347
  • Seddon, Rt. Hon. Richard John, 84; member for Kumara, 243; on Road Board, 249; funeral of, 250, 251
  • Shakespeare, William, 12; plays produced at Copenhagen, 28, 29, and at Napier by College Students, 57; commentators of, 58; coincidence of copy of "King Lear," 63, 64; and examinations, 73
  • "She Stoops to Conquer," 56
  • Simonsen Opera Company; see Martin Simonsen
  • Skelton, Mr., with J. L. Toole in New Zealand, 98
  • Smith, "Snowy," 255, 256
  • Smithfield, New Zealand, 161, 162
  • "Sorrowful Future," the 123125
  • Stanley, Sir H. M., 94
  • Stead, Mr. W. T., 128
  • Sterling, "L. S. D.," 75
  • Stewart, Prof. Hugh, 611
  • Stout, Hon. Sir Robert, 316
  • Streatfield, Mr. R. A., 109
  • Stringer, Mr. Justice, 155, defends Mrs. Howard, 310
  • Sumner, New Zealand, 300, 301
  • Tanner, W. W., 301
  • Taranaki, volcano, 361; legend of, 362
  • Taupo volcanic zone, 363
  • Temple of Truth, 132, 133
  • Thomson, Archibald Bruce, 37
  • Thomson, George, 257, pick-pocket
  • Timaru, Mr. Alpers in practice at, 146, 148, 161,; T. Hall's crimes at, 315; post-mortem on Capt. Cain, 332
  • Titheradge, Mr., with J. L. Toole in New Zealand, 95
  • Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, 17page 370
  • Tongariro, volcano, 361; legend of, 362
  • Too Fee, Mrs. Beatrice, 167
  • Toole, J. L., 95, 98
  • Torrens Act, 198
  • Trentham Training Camp, 83, 196
  • Twain, Mark, 20, 91
  • Umschau, the Frankfort, articles in, 3571
  • Vanbrugh, Miss Irene, 98
  • Van der Velden, 123126
  • Veel; see Colborne-Veel
  • Vigilants, the, 208
  • Vogel, Hon. Sir Julius, 92
  • von Müller, Commander, 80
  • Waiapu, Bishop of, 2. Waitangi, poaching and Treaty of, 162
  • Wales, H.R.H. the Prince of, 11
  • Ward, Miss Geneviève, 94
  • Ward, Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph, 84
  • Warner, Charles, 95, 96
  • "Warners Ltd. v. Lyttelion Times Co., Ltd.," case of, 155, 190
  • Warrigal Club, the, 275
  • Watson, Harold, 257
  • Wellington, funeral of, Rt. Hon R. J. Seddon, 250, 251
  • Westcote, E. Noyes, 349
  • Westminster Gazette, the, 347
  • Weston, B.A., L.L.B., Mr. G. T., 1401
  • Westport, judge Denniston at, 193
  • White, Mr. J. W., takes Mr. Alpers as partner, 146, at Hall's trial, 333, the "Taylor on Poisons" and, 337
  • Will o' the Wisp Club, 55; debate on Bonn at, 63
  • Williams, Ven. Archdeacon, 353, 3571
  • Williams, Rt. Hon. Sir Joshua Strange, 198; influence and appointments, 198; first death sentence, 200; at Hall's trial, 332
  • Williams, Q.C., Joshua, 198
  • Williams, T. Cyprian, 198
  • York, H.R.H. the Duke of, 11
  • Young, Mr. Farquhar, 64
  • Younghusband & Co., 277

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