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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2011, 21 February 1907, Page 1

Hud never been convicted of assaulting informant. , Other convictions of assault being rocordod against accused lie was fined £1 and costs. ASSAULT CASE. Thomas Moran v. Tlios. Barrett. — Assault. Mr Foot for informant, and Mr Saudoman for defendant. Thomas Moran said that on Jan. HGth last ho and a native named Kawhira were standing on the bridge in Lucknow street. Defendant came over and said, “Is that you Moran? Ho put his hand round witness’ neck and tore the flannel off his back. Told the native to release defendant’s hands from his neck. Defendant was drunk. By Mr Sandeniau : Witness was sober. A man named Mack came over and he and the native took Barrett away. Kawhira Kaiinoana said he knew the parties. He corroborated the previous witness, but said a woman and a boy came and separated the two men. By Mr Foot: Moran was sober and said nothing to accused. Thomas Barrett said he remembered the night in question. lie was -with a man named John Mack, He spoke to complainant about ids wifo, who is a sister of witness’, lie didn’t lay his hands on informant. John Mack pulled him away, and advised him to get away from complainant. His Worship advised the parties to keep out of each other’s road. They wore like acid and soda and couldn’t help fizzing when they came together. Ho fined defendant 10s and costs, as there was no previous conviction against him.

PRAISE FOR ' VOLUNTEERS. Lord Rosebery delivered a glowing appreciation of the •volunteer movement Midlothian Royal Garrison Artillery at a distribution of prizes to the Ist Volunteers at Edinburgh. In the course of the speech he said: I understand that you are considerably short of your active strength ; that you are a third short, more or less. That is a grave sign. I believo that you, Colonel Dalmahony, are correct in attributing it to the nature of the ornaments (laughter) which are provided for you as cannon, but if it means anything beyond that, it is a grave symptom. Indeed, I do not think that every oho realises, as they should realise, that they on e as a first duty to their country the duty of taking ujj arms, if necessary, in its defence. It should be a source of pride to every young man to feel that, as a volunteer, he lias served his country. They have not many opportunities directly of serving 'their country, and is it not an ennobling thing for every man here present in uniform -to feel that he stands apart from the civilian population, and is doing what in him lies to serve his country ? (Applause.) I know it is held that that is not a democratic view, that it savours of militarism, and that militarism is a feudal, exploded, aristocratic idea, which should not find refuge in any manly bosom. The exact reverse of that is the case. There is no more democratic idea than the idea that every man owes a military duty to his country. In England the arnied force of the country primarily consists of every able bodied man within its limits. That is the old, unwritten law of the Constitution in England. But you may say that England is a monarchial aristocratic country, and that Scotland is the same. ' Well, let us go further afield. There are two great Republics ill the world.

The Republic of the United States does not need any call upon the duty of its citizens to serve her in selfdf fence, because she has no neighbors to attack her. She has only Mexico oil one side, ivlio is not likely to attack tier, and she lias only Great Britain on the other, and, though Great Britain would always defend her Umpire, there is no human being within her limits, not oven in our new Bangour Asylum, that would think of attacking the United States- None of the great European monarchies, with their millions of armed men, would be so insane ns to go three thousand miles from their base to attack a population of eighty millions of spirited people. But President Roosevelt, in his message, says, with emphasis, that war is not merely not dishonorable, but it is imperative under certain circumstances on a free people, and ho might have added that, though there is nothing dishonorable in war, there is tiling very dishonorable in war without being prepared for it, (Applause.) Lord Rosebery went on to speak of the conditions of citizen service in the other great Republic of Switzerland—great in history and immortal ill tradition. The result of Switzerland’s system of defence was that though it lay in the middle of the great and sometimes greedy military monarchies of Europe, it had no fear of any attack upon its boundaries. Under these circumstances, it was not right for us, he continued, to consider the duty of military service as an undemocratic idea- It was the purest democracy. (Applause.) Conscription or obligatory military service were pot consonant with our ideas. They were in the teeth of our deliberate national policy, but what lie desired to see was a real volunteer army, sustained by the inspiration and enthusiasm of the nation itself. (Applause.) He remembered well, though he was a boy at school at tile time, the second volunteer, movement in 1860 on' the threat of a war with France. The nation sprang to arms, largely led by that young Lothian soldier, the Earl of Wemyss, who, at the ago of 87, was as sprightly as many a young fellow of 3Q. He remembered the exhilaration and enthusiasm of that time. So it would be again if there was any threat of invasion, but then it might ho to late, If was no use bo-, coining volunteers when the enemy was upon you. AVo. were told that the Fleet was a complete guarantee for the security of our shore, and, even if the Fleet was as efficient as we believed and iioped it was, no sane citizen of Great Britain would wish to leave a. single oliink of chance. Suppose what was called a marauder slipped through the Fleet, and landed on our shores, we did not wish to say on that occasion, shrugging our shoulders, that it was ail the fault of the Fleet, and that we had nothing to do with it. He knew of no place which had so great a call on volunteers as the shores of the Firth of Forth, where tlic enemy might make all attempt to shoot past Inchkeitli and the barriers that they offer to invasion, and destroy the groat pathway of the Forth bridge, or harass the ancient capital of Edinburgh. Many of those who might have been volunteers, if such circumstances took place, which God forbid that they should, . when they were called to pay tlicir share of the war contribution, when they saw tlicir city humbled and occupied, would wish that in time they had become volunteers. (Applause.)

A doctor recently ordered a pair ol trousers from a tailor. On trying them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on Saturday night, the tailor’s shop was closed, and the doctor took, the trousers to his wife and asked her to cut the surplus off ant] hem them over, The good lady, whose dinner had perhaps disagreed with her, snappishly refused. The same results follower! applications to the uifo’s sister and the eldest daughter. Before bedtime the wife, relenting, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches from the legs, hemmed them up nicely, and restored them to the closet. Half an hour later her daughter, taken with compunction for her unfilial conduct, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches, hemmed and replaced them. Finally the sister-in-law felt the pangs of conscience and she, too, performed an additional surgical operation on the garment. When the doctor appeared at breakfast on Sunday morning, the family thought a Highland chieftain had arrived. WHY GO HUNGRY. If vour stomach is weak and you are suffering from indigestion, don’t sacrifice your health and comfort. _ Eat all the wholesome food you want. Then take one of Dr. Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules after each meal. They digest your food and thus nourish and build you up, while the stomach is recovering its natural tone. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist,