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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 119, 27 August 1910, Page 10

At a police court recently n. man was fined forty shillings for assaulting a policeman. Considering himself a mueliinjured man, he, on reaching t'hc door, began abusing the magistrate in lan-guaio-e that was never used in Parliament. An officer was sent after him, and he found himself once more in the dock and fined again, for contempt ot court. As he was leaving, the magistrate said, "My man, if you had beem more chaste and refined in your language, you would not have been chased and re-fined." "Will t'he luck 'bus-conductor,' asKs an advertisement in a London contemporary, "give to his Superannuation Fund ten shillings of the nineteen shillings he was able to pocket through the carelessness of a passenger who accepted elevenpence change out of a sovereign for a pennv ride?" "Poor Giblets!" ' "Wliat now?" He 8 been off on a vacation for a month, and the doctor has ordered him to go back to work for his health."