LESE MAJESTE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1933, Page 6

LESE MAJESTE

NATIVE) WOMAN BEFORE COURT.. “GEORGE” NOT UP TO STANDARD. CAPETOWN, September 9. Ring George V. of England came in for a great deal of criticism, outvfie ' the Ladysmith Magistrate’s Court; when ' five native constables spent an uncomfortable two hofurs guarding a native woman suffering from an evil spell which had been vast on her.

“George,” as the old woman, disrespectfully called him, was far too apathetic about South Ajirican affairs. If he took -more interest and displayed a firmer hand in- the ad" mfrustration vof the country, things would not be nearly so- bad as -they are. It was a great pity that “George” wa s not a little more like t-he ‘‘beautiful spirit”—Queen Victoria— who always had the interests of her native subject at heart. One of the constables, horrified at the lese majeste, tried t-o quieten Rozalina,. He was sorry a few minutes later, when she turned her tongue to a description .of the constable’s, relatives, remarking that it was ia :pity that they had never married -and a greater pity that they had ever brought him into the world.

The other constables enjoyed the joke immensely until ROsalina turned her attention to them. When the court orderly announced that it- was old Rozalina’s turn to enter* the court, s he decided that it was time to break into song. The '■or.seqilence, was that Rosali-na never entered the court, but on an order from fin, magistrate was committed to an institution.