OFFICIAL EYE OF DISPLEASURE.

NZ Truth, Issue 143, 14 March 1908, Page 6

OFFICIAL EYE OF DISPLEASURE.

while he remarked, '-If your wife is drunk that is no reason why you should get drunk, too."- It occurred to the police that Lane's was just the sort of- nani'e that would ilook well on, an order. When Bobby Wright arrived at the swipe-ruined home, he found Mrs Lane sitting on the bed muddled with ulceration draught and nursing a young child.- Lane . had been chastising her for her intemperance and other things, '_ and the blood from face injuries trickled down her not uiubeautiful dial on to the youngster, who was baptised dn blood and beer. Returning to the house with another . cop, they found Lane nursing a second kid, aged about 2, and looking a y s if he didn't care whether Webb .won the Newmarket Handicap or appropriated the Pole Jump. Wright • took . charge of" the nipper and conveyed it to the Police Station".. ; Yet -another visit found Lane holding his youngest offspring the wrong way up and that kid was also rescued. Prohibition orders were applied f or against both . subseiquently m the S.M. Court, and. the pair entered the, hall of justice, each bearing a howling token of their unhappy union. The woman consented to the order, but Lane, who had already been looking on the pewter when it was full, resisted the puerile police attempt to deprive him of his beer. The woman was submissive and .remarked, anxiously, that he had always been a good husband to her. Likewise she cried bitterly, while THE KIDS WEPT JN CONCERT. . and. a discordant trio merged into an inharmonious quartette when Lane snapped out bass interjections. Lane is a beer-brutalised mongrel, who besmirched the good-fame of his weak but virtuous missus m an attempt to save his own hide. He alleged tha+ the woman drank to excess, and even though he stopped her money she went out and obtained purge of some • description by. questionable means. "My . wife made the room a brothel," he said. Hero massive Sergeant Rutledge informed the Bench that lie had made inquiries into Lake's alleviations, which that beer-laden person had been dinning into the official ears at Mt. Cook, and . discovered that there was no foundations for the accusations. I Dr. Mc Arthur issued orders against both husband and wife, who -will suffer from involuntary dryness for a period of, 'twelve months, unless they go to a pub where they're not known.