UNWELCOME

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 1

UNWELCOME

\ Guest T(^ OUSTll^€(^p ; (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch I r ; Rep.) ; ' viiMiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiMiiiiiilr/ I 1 A disciple of the merry, life i i I ccultt t John Lancelot Gladstone | ■ i Vievfer tVusts to the liberality of | i |- his' hosts, but adheres to the | i' I principle ; that if .you want a | 5 | good time you should supply it | C 1 yourself. ' = T7i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ni> i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 > ) ) iiiii >it m 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 ii i<ll ii i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 vi .H 1 TT was under such circumstances that * Gladstone rolled up late to a party at St. Albans on a recent evening, for he had taken the precaution of laying: a few drinks m, to add a little merrirrient to the ' occasion. ,' ' So, with a' sheet, or two ,in^ the breeze, he sauntered m, only to bd 1 reprimanded by his host for his merry condition. } host told Lancelot m n. lew. • short words that he. was more or less • under the influence, and that his abr sence' would be better appreciated than his company. . '•".- But Lancelot is a cantankerous bird, and had violent .objections to fading into the mists from what he hoped would be a jolly : deslient li'l affair. . He had come to, stay, so one of the [ guests took the only 'means possible ■ of remindlngr Lancelot that he was not [ wanted on the voyage, and a scuffle . ensued m which his coat was torn off. So Lancelot left,' but the sight of [ his ejector's car .parked outside the - house stirred him to revenge. Two charges of mischief and wilful • damage, involving £1?. were preferred against Gladstone, who was vdescribed, 1 as a commercial traveller residing at > 272 Barbadoes Street. He did not dpP ear > and' Magistrate ; Mosley informed his counsel, Lawyer J. Cor bett, thatv Gladstone would have : '-got off lighter if rhe had come to cour.t l and faced the music... •'■ He was* fined^a total of £6, In de- ,• fault two weeks. in gaol, and on top of this counsel had; the temerity to. apply for the suppression of Gladstone's name, on the grounds that he /was a highly respectable citizen of Christi church and- was sorry for what he had done. . ' ■ ■: : ■ v. ; : ■ .' ■. ' .-.■ ; . ■ '/.-. .', - . ■v „ ■'■'