The Marton S.M. Court. Sittings of this Court are held fortnightly, the presiding magistrate coming from Wanganui.

Mr. Francis Morris Deighton is the Clerk of the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court for Marton, Bulls, Halcombe, and Featherston, and Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the Rangitikei Electoral District. Mr. Deighton was born in Cambridge, England, and left for the Colony in 1854 per ship “Josephine Willis,” on her first and last voyage, she being wrecked in the Channel on her next trip, when seventy lives were lost Arriving in New Plymouth in January, 1855, just after the great. earthquake, Mr. Deighton took the road through Wanganui, having on his journey to camp at Maori settlements or on sand hills, fish and potatoes being the only food obtainable. He was one of the first settlers in Rangitikei, and has witnessed the growth and development of the district. At the time of the Gabriel's Gully rush, Mr Deighton visited the goldfields, remaining about a year. Subsequently he had charge of a station in Oamaru, but was not long before he came back to Marton. In 1873 he was appointed clerk to the R.M. Court, and has held the position ever since. Mr. Deighton was in the-Wanganui Cavalry during the war, and subsequently was lieutenant in the militia in Marton. He passed through all the exciting times, and assisted in the building of the Marton redoubt, on the site of which the St. Stephen's Church is erected.

Bishop, George Fife, Barrister and Solicitor, High Street, Marton. Born in 1853, in Wellington, Mr. Bishop is the second son of the late Mr. William Bishop, who came o New Zealand per ship “London” in 1841. Educated at the Otago Boys High School and at the Wellington College, he was articled to Messrs. Travers and Ollivier, of Wellington, being admitted to the bar in 1876. After practising in Wellington, Palmerston North, and Feilding, he settled in Marton.

Cash and Cohen (Thomas Richards Cash and Louis Cohen, M.A.), Barristers and Solicitors, High Street, Marton. Branch, Bulls. Telegraphic address, “Cash, Marton.” P.O. Box 17. Bankers, Bank of Australasia. Private residences: Mr. Cash, Marton; Mr. Cohen, Broadway, Marton. London agents, Pilgrim and Phillips, 19 Coleman Street. Wellington agents, Brown and Dean; Christchurch, Garrick, Cowlishaw and Fisher; Dunediu, Stout, Mondy and Sim; Auckland, Hesketh and Richmond. This old established business was founded about 1872 by the senior partner, Mr. T. R. Cash. The present partnership dates from 1803. The firm are solicitors to the Rangitikei County Council, the Bank of Australasia, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company in the Rangitikei district. Mr. Cash was admitted as barrister and solicitor in the year 1867, in Auckland. Mr. Cohen is referred to elsewhere in this volume as solicitor to the Rangitikei County Council.

Fullerton-Smith, A. W., Barrister and Solicitor, Wellington Road, Marton. Telegraphic address, “Fullerton-Smith, Marton.” P.O. Box 31. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand and Bank of Australasia. Private residence, Thryberg, Marton. London agents, Messrs. Redpath and Holdsworth, Bush Lane, Cannon Street, E.C.; Wellington agents, Messrs. Bell, Gully, and Izard, Mr. Fullerton-Smith is a native of Yorkshire. He was page 1319 educated at Rugby school, and served his articles with the Town Clerk of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, and subsequently with Messrs. Redpath and Holdsworth in London. After his admission Mr. Fullerton-Smith was managing clerk to the Town Clerk of Barrow-in-Furness, and in the year 1879 he left England for New Zealand in the ship “Wairoa,” arriving in Wellington in November of the same year. Mr. Fullerton-Smith established the present business in the year 1880, and has conducted the same ever since. He holds the position of solicitor to the Marton Borough Council.

Esam, C. G., Barrist a Soli, High Street, Marton.