MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1928, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

TALE OF TWO BROTHERS. Amusement was eau-.ed in the King’s Bench Division, London, when it was discovered that the brother of a defendant in an action was on the jury sworn to hear' it. Ylr Rowland 'Thomas had .just begun bis opening speech when Ylr Joy, K.C., who appeared for the defendant, interrupted with the remark: “I am told that the- dc4 end ant’s brother is on the jury.” A limn sitting in the front row of the jury box rose to liis feet, and answering Ylr Justice Shearman, admitted that he was the defendant’s brother. 'The defendant bad recognised his brother and waved his band to him. 'Tire brother on the jury, at the suggestion of the judge, lelt the jury box. and the ease was. heard by 11 jurors. MI-think it is on record,” said his lordship “that a defendant could not, in any ease, give evidence because lie was on the jury. Probably his presence there would be more useful to himself than in the witness box.”

STREET FATALITIES. The number of school children killed or injured in street accidents in London in a year approximates to the total number of children in average attendance at all the elementary schools in a large county borough of the size of Northampton. This startling fact is brought out in the annual report of the Education Officer to the London County Council (YL- G. IT. Gator). “The number «f traffic- accidents to children it: ” : ’9. states

the report, “stands " ■ the most deplorable feature of any statistical record for the year. The number of children under 15 years of age killed in the "Metropolitan police area was 233, and the number injured was 9A2S a greater number than ever before, despite the decline in the child population. . . Tt reflects an everincreasing anxiety of parents and teachers, and it emphasises the need for inculcating a traffic sense in the rising generation, and the need likewise for a cautious and responsible use of the roads.”

SKA SICKNESS REMEDY. German shipping lines intend to use what is claimed to be an infallible remedy for sea-sickness, in the hope of capturing a. more substantial share of the Atlantic tourist traffic. The remedy is administered m a gaseous form through an inhalation apparatus, and is the invention of Dr Dnmmart. who. as a ships doctor, spent ten years experimenting tor a safe cure. The big North German TJovd Company is now equipping its liners with the apparatus. Dr Dammart declares that his discovery is based on the fact that sea-sickness _ts caused by a disturbance nl glands and nerves. As the is em Ocean is notoriously rough it is expected that voyagers prune to inal <• <* mer will rush the German liners if the l>ammart cure is found to work. ctain ships a few years ago were fitted with anti-rolling tanks m the hope of steadying the vessels, and reducing the agonies of the sea-sick these, however, were not success!ul.

THE STAGE IRISHMAN

What Stevenson called the •'copious Corinthian baseness of the Ac.nirc.in reporter ” seems to be pleasantly reillustrated by Mr Cosgrave's expression of surprise at finding that the ejacu ation “ Regorra ! ” has been frequently attributed to him by U.S.A. interviewers isavs a writer in the “ Munches or Guardian.”) it is not a word wh h most peonle have ever board from Up, of an Irishman except on the stage, and we have lately boo,. assured that, a campaign lias been '” ,n< ’ • America itself against the ol<l tbeat cal conception of an Irishman. interviewers who put ” Regorra! - Mr Coserave’s mouth should also have described -wearingl^a shillelagh about l.ts head. as Tf there ever was su< • o Regorra!” in the Irish vocal',. la. > must have been a long tune ago But what does that matter to a s 0 “ Oddsbodiknis ( „ t<nt last must “Mnrry come tip. Warwick - bavo been very populai . shire about three centuries ag< •