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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 249, 20 November 1914, Page 1 (Supplement)

an r\Toirnw.ATE (,u<kstion. • « In tlio course (if :i lecture tli<* other day. Dr. Hlako Odgers. K.C.. told a illustrate liis adviiv that Iwrristor* should always he courteous to witnesses. Oriu day 111 Court a barrister w ho had Ikjcu browbeating a witness asked whether Jio had com id i t t<-d a certain illegul net ion. Reluctantly, t lie witness admittod that, lie had. I hen the barrister asked I lie i|iiite un--1 lieu the barrister asked tlio unnecessary question : And didn t your lather do the same on a previous occasion " 1 don t know, the badgered witnctift rapped out. " Hut ii you want to know, you can ask him. He's over iliero oniony the jury I'* And the barrister, w hose case depended on rousing the sympathy id tlio jury, siit do» n suddenly ! I'LttKv tor n< • rhim;. Mi. W l .lervi.s-Waldy. who lias just published the story of his I'fo. under the heading " From l ight to Kighty." tells, in 1 hi'course ol it, some cxcvlleiii. stoiICS. One of the best is a story of an explosion which took place during tlio Indian Mutiny. An arsenal ''it. Karachi, in which some hoMt, ol >aluabl«*h wero kepi, was blown up. and when tho colonel called lor a captain to take his oouipanv into the ruins 10 remove these valuables. Mr. .lon is-\\ ildv volunteered. Kxplosions were si dl taking place, but by sheer pluck lie and his men managed to enter the blazing ruins, and got the boxes oiit-ido in vilety . When. howover. the boxes, wct'e opened. the.\ were found to contain, not valuables, but horseshoes. Kveiyhoiiy. ol enuise. laughed; but ilion, a.s Mr. .lei v's \\ aldy sax-, everybody had not volunteered.to go into the blazing arsenal. TAKING HIM DOWN. Earl Roberts or " Hobs, ' us most of us call him—who has been appointed Colonel-in-t-hief of the Overseas forces, i.s the hero of a.s many good stories us he was of lights. There is the story of the tall man who was made to feel anil look very small. The lengthy person's hobby was trying to take a rise out of everyone ho 1m met, and when at n certain l>>ndon club he w ,is introduced to l.ord Rol>ertfl. be proceeded a, u-ual with liini: All. lie remarked in his. patronisinpt iv a\\ "1 have often heard of you. but' ..'ml hcie he looked hard down from hit, own siv fool something at tlio great liilie soldier—"but I have never seeu \ en!" "No," retorte.] " Hobs." frooaiusb • ■ Well, tor my l» ; " 1 I ofU>n u you. but I have novel hoard of you! | HOSSPITAH'LE. ' Jones iwlio has lwvn {«sko<? to (ak<» pot luclO : "I say. dues your wife know I'm coining " "Nil. we had a l»ir ol a rn.v tin* u.oinii.g, aud I waiii in pay hur out.