SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

A barrister (at Shoreditch County Council Court): "I am pretty tolerably, almost nearly certain of the fact."

'* Many good men have been drunk in their day. The difference between a wise man and a fool is that a wise man does not get drunk again."—Mr. Hedderwick in tho North i,ondon Court.

i. ti * * , . * rlavc you got children of your own:' asked a witness at Jierthyr'of a bachelor advocate, who was cross-ex-amining lnm. i in,, the father of fourteen, and the grandfather of thirty-three," he aduea.

At Kichiiiond revision court a man'.j chum to a vote was objected to on .the giound that he was ever, was disputed, hut the juivcra. iigeiit, who is aiso an undertaker, otopped the argument by saying, ' i know he is deau. 1 buried ium.

"If three coustables, an inspector, and' a doctor do not know when a man is drunK, Bow Street Police Loirt might just as well be shut up," said Mr. Hopkins, in lining a chauffeur, who had run into a sandbin in Whitehall when under the influence of drink.

In tlic bow County Court a woman, supporting a summons, described the deiendant and his wife as follows

"They are a very fortunate couple, and, through their income »r» enabled to lead an ideal life, spending the wnole ol Saturday afternoon and evening a public-house."

* * * A miner charged at Gateshead with being drunk proudly exhibited a badg« bearing the letters "T.8.N." This, he said, showed ho was teetotal. In further explanation he said it indicated Temperance Bar Nuts, there being eighty-four of them belonging to it in Birtley. He added that a temperance bar was where they sold pop and saparilla.