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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 14, 19 February 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

Oho of the shortest summings-up on record is believed to be that delivered by the late Commissioner Kr.Tr at the Old Bailey in a case where a man was charged with being in the unlawful possession of a. gold watch and chain. ; The appearance of the prisoner d d | not correspond with the legit'niate P"S-sei-sion of sutTi costly ornaments, but he asserted his innocence of the charge | and declared that he had found the ! watch and chain on the pavement. Tht judge looked at the man in the dock, and then at the men in the box. "Gentlemen of the jury." he said. " 1 have walked over the pavements of London during the last forty years, and I've never found a gold watch and chain yet. Consider your verdict!" Queen Victoria had a distinct horror of travelling by train, and the strictest precautious to guard against accident had to l>e taken before she could be prevailed upon to proceed on a railway journey. This dislike was shared by the Duke of Wellington, and arose from the namo cau.se—the tra.gic death of Huskisson at the opening of the Manchester line. Wellington actually witnessed the accident, and for twenty years after refused to travel by ra'l. It is doubtful if he made any longer railway journey in his life than an occasional trip to | Windsor. Lord Palmerston was another avoider of railways, bating to Ik> so closely confined. Whenever passible, he did his travelling on horseback, and chafed when ill-health compelled him to ride in a carriage.