LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Just arrived, Island oranges, 2s per doz., at. Turner’s Station Market.— Atlvt.

At the Wanganui Court recently (reports the “Herald”), Mr Slipper was questioning Mr Atkinson, ail architect, on the advisibility or otherwise of patching old spouting that had luul considerable wear with now, and counsel contended that it would not lie a satisfactory job, and the old material would soon give way. The Magistrate (.Mr Barton) interjected anil remarked to Mr Slipper that he believed that the latter on one occasion told him that lie had not an intimate knowledge of the .Scriptures. Mr Barton then by wav of comparison to the patching of old spouting, reminded eotinsel ot the quotation from Matthew: “No man piittetli it peiee of new cloth into an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.” Mr Slipper confided to a reporter thill he ■was more familiar with the following verse from Matthew to that quoted b> the Magistrate: "Neither do men put new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out mill the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved."