"I WORK ON SALT WATER"
A POLICE COURT INTERLUDE. "It's all right, I'm here," shouted out a genial voice from the public enclosure at the Magistrate's Court yesterday) when a certain name was called. There was a momentary shuffling and swaying amongst the motley crowd there as the defendant pushed his way through. "Yes, I'm here, all right," murmured the individual, as he reached the body of the court. He tacked irregularly across to the dock, leant against it, and listened—or attempted Ui listen—to a charge, full of legal vocabulary and concerning two children, Dolly and Maria, and whom it was alleged he had failed to maintain.
"I beg your pardon," he said, when the clerk had finished. "I had no Dolly at all. I have Maria, but no Dolly." The Court records were searched, but no Dolly was found. Accused grew more confident, and smiling blandly reiterated that there was no Dolly. "You previously admitted a similar charge in respect to your two children?" inquired the Magistrate at length. Accused acquiesced readily. "Well, can you give anything for their maintenance?" said His Worship.
"No, I have no money," came the ©mphatio reply.
"How did you get the money to drink?" questioned the Magistrate. "I liave never drunk; I am a teetotaller," replied the accuscd more emphatically. • A Court official in accused's immediato vicinity avowed that he had been drinking that morning. "What do you do?" furtter inquired tie Magistrate. . "I work on salt water," was the reeponso. The Magistrate; "You mean on board ship?"—" Yes."
Tho Magistrate: "Are you on board a vessel now?"—" No. lam in amongst the shore." . The questioning ceased at -this, and the case was adjourned. "Yon can go to the registry and see there is 110 Dolly," repeated accused, returning to the original argument. "That will do," said the Magistrate.
Samoan Storekeepers sell "Fluenzol." Only six thousand Europeans are included iu tbe population of the island of Ceylon wliich totals well over four mil--tofit.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 9
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330"I WORK ON SALT WATER" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 9
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