NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1926, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

> 'A THEFT. * Detective Robert Smith, met ;i young man wearing the cap badge of I a driver of the London General Omnii bus Company and carrying a suit ) case. * “■'Whither away?” said the detee- * tive, or words to that effect. , The young man Said he was an omnibus conductor and produced a staff i pass in support of his story. The offiI eer, however, was unsatisfied, and I opening the suit-case found an omni--1 bus conductor’s complete uniform, which the young man, who was remanded, was accused of stealing. He admitted the theft and added that it was up to the officer to find where he got the stuff. 'l’lie detective accepted the challenge, hence the remand. A POKER FACE. -Mr Watson,' the magistrate, has a “ poker ’’ face—that is to say, he rarely shows surprise at anything he hears from the dock or the witness box. Yesterday, however, he raised a surprised eyebrow when, after one wife had declared that her husband gave her only 10s a week and a black eye for Easter, the next applicant proudly asserted that her husband had given her only £1 in seven years. “ And what does your husband , pay you?” asked the magistrate when the third worried woman entered the box. 1 haven’t got a husband, thank Heaven!” was the fervent reply. A ROWDY LOCALITY. When George Chiles ran out of his. house in Campbell road in pursuit of his wife clad only in his pants, a shocked constable escorted him to his bedroom to put on his trousers, mid * then took him. decently clothed, to the police station. Another constable remarked that half a dozen rows were going on in Campbell road at the time and different children were inquiring for policemen, 1 but he vividly remembered Mr Chiles. clad in his pants, running in hot pur- 1 suit of a screaming woman. Mr Chiles i now fully clothed paid 20s. 1 SMACK IN THE EYE.

Somebody hit a. potman in the eye with a glass in a public-house in Junc-tion-fond. Evidence pointed to a carman who had been asked to leave the jovial crowd.

“ Xo sir.” said the carman, addressing the magistrate, “ not with a glass hut with the door-post, and my wife got a bump in the same place where the scuffle commenced.”

Despite the ambiguous explanation the carman was ordered to pay £3 10s for drunkgpness and damages.