"BORN 1865—"

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 7

"BORN 1865— "

-■♦ And Bryant Is Still Going Wrong (From "N.Z. i Truth's" Auckland Rep.) This is a sad world— a hard world. But 'twas ever so. Ask ' William Richard Bryant; he'll no doubt readily agree. FOR William has had. a lot of trouble. Stacks of it, if police court convictions are to.be taken into account as adversity. Even m his sixty-third year, William's star seems still to be . on the wane. We've seen old Bill m tears (before a magistrate), bewailing his lot against the terrestial temptations which were threatening to bring down his "grey hairs m sorrow to the grave." That was a few weeks ago, when Bill, with a Seventh Day Adventist minister beside the dock, and tapping a convincing flow of tears, promised to seek the path of righteousness. A sympathetic magistrate allowed William to go his way m peace and repentance. Bill went, but was back again within a couple of days, his get-thee-behind-me-Satan (or Bacchus, rather) resolutions having proved to be only ephemeral m substance. , No, try as he will, Bill seems doomed to failure m keeping within the narrow bounds of righteousness, despite the assistance of the authorities m f encing-in his path with a prohibition order. • This order, according to Bryant, on his more recent appearance to add to an y already expanded list, has been more trouble than it seems to him to be worth. "This prohibition order has caused me a lot of trouble," whined William when pleading guilty to refractory conduct m regard to the said order. "There's no doubt about that," remarked Sub-Inspector McCarthy drily, as he handed to Magistrate Cutten a meticulously-kept record of the fallen disciple's behavior, so far as the police were concerned. "His trouble is brought about by his being separated from his wife," added the officer. "He has been going round to her, causing trouble, and of course, has had to be arrested. - "He is living with her now, but I don't know how long it will last." "I went to a party," said the culprit m mitigation of his sins. But parties and prohibition orders don't mix well— and often enough produce an effect which requires a somewhat expensive antidote. Bill's was £2 or seven day*.