LATE LOCALE.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALE.

T have gone to be married” is the legend on a placard high up on ti e gable of a temporarily unoccupied house iu Fitzroy (reports the. Taranaki Herald). Judging by tb e lettering, the placard is the work of more than one hand. At any rate the prospective benedict will find on Lis return that his great adventure has been well advertised.

There was quite a commotion in King Street, Taranaki, a day or two ago. A Maori, who had been drinking rather too freely was propping himself up against the railing of the culvert near the sample rooms, but suddenly he lost his equilibrium altogether and disappeared from view. Passers-by ran to his assistance and found him lying in the bed of the Maungatului stream. Fortunately the water was very low, and eventually the Maori was hoisted back to the road little the worse apparently for his 16 feet fall and sudden immersion.

When evidence was about .to be taken in a sexual case in the Wellington Magistrate’s Coure recently, Chief Detective Ward called attention to the large audience, mostly of young men present, and suggested that the court should 1) C cleared. The magistrate: “1 don’t see why an audience of young fellows like those standing at the hack there should be in Court at all. Young fellows like that should be at work.” The magistrate ordered the court to he cleared, and there was immediately a shuffling of feet, while some of those who fancied they had been robbed ot a cheap entertainment began “booh'lupj’ The .magistrate: “If von can find the man who is making that row brill" him up bore, and I will deal with him properly.” The noise ceased and the Court was soon cleared.

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