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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 3

As our passions grow less so we I grow moral. Many oi us are more moral now than we were last year— .worse luck. I Seems as iMhe old earth was do- | ing a "settle" all round- 'Quakes |by the score recorded since poor, I beautiful San- Francisco set the pace. It is stated that an English Bishop once said that "he would rather see England free than sober." The < Australian wowser "would rather see an Australasian dead than drunk any day." The ordinary Australasian seemingly would not care a hang' ii all the Bishops and wowsers m the world, combined, were either ! Oamaru was visited a few days ago by a person who professed to te a medical gentleman. The, police at Diinedin recognised him the day he arrived as "Mr O. Brian Donnelly, M.D., R.Y. (sec.)-" He is identical with Charley Donnelly, alias the Hon..Robert Preston, alias Lieutenant Donnellv. alias the Hon. Kinnaird, a young Englishman of about 25 years of age, who arrived m the colony m 1902. This gentleman 1 served -a term of three months m the Natvier Gaol for impersonation, besides doins: other terms. He is said to have l& n work-i ing m a fiaxmill m the North Island until recently. One of the sweetest bits of satrical humor ever perpetrated was contained m "Masfcix," "Flotsam," m the "Times," on Saturday morning last. Writing of/the value of leading articles, m replying to someone who asked, "Has the leading article lost its value." he naively compared the modern leading art'"''" to the ballast of a ship, and said its value was if! ratio to its weight avoirdupois, and tended to counterbalance the buoyancy of .the other Dart of the paper. It this be so,, then the "Tim^s" will never have cause to fear pain"- up m the air. A coarse visaged scamp whose appearance denoted debauchery and, a devil-may-careness, would have been the first to be honored with, treatment under the Habitual Snigger's Act' at Ohristchurch. had there., been a place "proclaimed" by the Government for the reception of beefy rascals of his class. For Thomas Bell is not ottlv a hop chewer but a thief as well, and he has done time for false pretences, and been punished for bre aiding prohibition orders' and for begging alms. It was his twenty-first appearance the other mornino-, mostly for swanky, and it was his fourth time within nine months, consequently he came under the new Act, but the S.M. was unable to deal with him under that measure, for the reason mentioned above. But m the case of a man like Bell— a 1 man £i'ven- over to vic-ious-ness and vice—it is big odds that he will ciualify again later on. In the meantime he is qualified for fourteen days, luring which period he will occupy a position between the shafts of a wheelbarrow at. Lyttelton. '