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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 9

A rather unusual set of circumstances was related in the Napier Magistrate’s Court recently, when a defendant was charged witli driving a car at night without the necessary lights (says an exchange). A constable stated that he saw the car at 8.40 p.m. with no tail light. Defendant said that he did not know it was timeto’Tight up.’’ The Bench remarked that sunset was at 8.8 p.m., and a motorist had to light up within half an hour, so that 8.38 p.m. was the time. The defendant was caught at 8.40, or two minutes later. The presiding Justices commented that to punish a man for being only two minutes late in illuminating bis car seemed “a bit thick,” and dismissed the case. Two beautiful specimens of Yucca Glorlosa are to be seen in an Invercargill private garden owned by Mr. G. Williams (says the “Southland. Times”). Standing about eight feet, this curious and rare plant resembles, if anything, a dwarf cabbage tree, with one glorious long stem of blooms arising out of a forest of spikes. The flowering stem is made up of dozens of small blooms ’ream-white in colour, and delicately 'nrraed Mr. Williams obtained these nleresting shrubs from Nelson seven •oars ago, and this is the first season hat they have flowered, although it is nown that they will bloom every year a the future. Certain clergymsg in England are reciting against tne wearing of clerical 'ress. stigmatising it as denressng and ’ismal. The wearing of ordinary dress, -aye one, night be the means of rstor- : ’ig that contact with the man in the ’bird-class carriage which the church had undoubtedly lost. Dr. Thaddeus L. Bolton, head of the Department of Psychology. Temple University in America, states that cows, horses, monkeys, and dogs laugh and that smiling is a cultured or refined form of laughter in man.