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MAGISTERIAL. TUESDAY. (Before Mr V. G. Day, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A malo first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment; a male first offender charged with drunkenness and with having. procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, was conviciol and discharged; a woman, similarly charged, was given the benefit of ten years' good behaviour and waa oonviefced and' discharged. For having been drunk whilst in charge of a horse c and cart, Richard Sheehan, alias O'Brien, alias Joe Edwards, was fined £5, in default to be imprisoned for one month; he was also ordered- to pay £1, the value of a constable's helmet damaged by him; in default, to be imprisoned for seven days. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Arthur Harold Sergent-Shadbolt pleaded "guilty tinder provocation" to a charge of having used' obscene language in Martin's lano, Addington, on Mondnv evening, in the hearing of passers-by. His "Worship remarked that there could bo no provocation that ivou'd justify obpeono language. A fin© of 40s was imposed; in default 14 days' imprisonment. Several cures of rheumatoid arthritis, hitherto a disease which cotild be alleviated hut not cured, have been effected at the London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond street, W.C., according to a statement at the British. Homoeopathic Congress. "These cures were brought about by the use of what# we call 'high dilutions' —that is, drugs so greatly diluted that the dose is extremely small,'* said a member of the conjgress to a "Daily Mail" reporter. ASTHMA. Bronchitis, hay fever, etc., Per- i manently Cured. Worst crises treated. CaJl 216 HEREFORD STREET, CITY. Hours; 2-6. 'Phone 4990. I Specialists Natural Therapeutics. L 5195-7546

;| RIFLE SHOOTING. 1 i IMPERIAL CHALLENGE SHIELD. ,T3y Cable—Prtss Association—Copyright.} • ( (.Australian and X.Z. Cafc'.e Association.) LOXIWX, Xove-.nber S. ! In tho competition for tho Imperial C-hal- | lensje Shield, KX> teams entered in tie fenior i division. and 5'A9 in the junior division. Aus- • I trivia. ">'2 prizes. Great Britain :<7, Smith ■ ; Africa. Xow Zealar.d nine, ar.d Car.ada. 1 fixj Australia gained 14 ov.l of tr.o first- 00 prizes ! in the> eenior competition, and New Zealand ! four. The Hoyal Australian Naval Brigade, ' Cairns, was £r=t wish an average of 03.2. A i Xrival Cadet?, Birkenhead (Sonth j Australia) wa."< pocoikl with 911.-, and New Plymouth Hifth School third with 91.1. I The Naval Boys' Bricode, Povonporl, Kr.c:j land. v.on the Junior Shield with an nverase !of 91.5. Twelfth Company. Naval Cadets. Birkenhead was pecond with 91.'2, and Now Plymouth High School : third with 01.1. i Special prize* wore awarded to three out ■ r>f "27 teams representing the Australian iri- | far.try v.-hieh entered 2.> teams, nr.d won 1- ' 1 The Royal Australian Nr.val BTitrnde (Sydi rev) and tho New l'lymouth Hieli School ! each entered 10 tenuis, all of which, were ! prize-winners. ! The conditions for tho competition in 1921 j will he the same as those for the 19C0 competition. A man with a historv i* Lieutenant I I Vladimir Jabotinsky', who has recently 'arrived in England. Lieutenant Jabotinsky became known as the "Jewish "Garibaldi" by founding tho Jewish Legion, which fought shoulder to shoul- , tier with the British forces to free Palestine from the Turks. His name again became prominent during the riots in Jerusalem Inst April, when ho organised a Jewish self-defence corps. He was afterwards sentenced to lit'teen years' penal servitude, a sentence which caused considerable feeling throughout Jewry. Ho was included in the amnesty list issued by Sir Herbert Samuel on the latter's arrival in Palestine