A CURIOUS COURT CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 22 May 1909, Page 3

A CURIOUS COURT CASE.

Feilding, May 21. A curious case was commenced before Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M., in the Feilding Court yesterday. W. Clarkson, cycle and motor dealer, sued Adrian Porter for on a dishonoured promissory note, given in part payment for a motor car. The defence was that Porter was helplessly drflnk at the time he signed the bill, and therefore was not responsible tor his action. After several hours’ hearing the case was adjourned till June 10.

The seditious utterances for which H. Holland, one of the Broken Hill strikers, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, was as follows: —‘‘We read an account ot Tom Mann’s arrest when in Sydney, and of thousands of you men, who call yourselves unionists, being there, and you allowed Tom Mann to be taken to gaol, aud not oue of you attempted to rescue him, aud only 300 police iu Broken Hill, and you call yourselves unionists. You have the position in your hands, geographically, now. How long would it take you to stop the supplies to the gaol, to refuse to allow your daughters to wait upon the police ; stop supplies to Broken Hill mine and send Wade’s criminals back. If you are going to fight, put a little ginger into it, or to be plainspokeu, dynamite. That is the way to win. Do you mean to say 300 police are going to frighten you? Why, if they bit you with the baton, then hit them with a baton. If they hit you with a pick handle, hit them with a pick. If they shoot at you with a revolver, and if they raise a rifle at you, well, if you have a Gatliug guu, turn it on them.”