MOOR TRIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2329, 24 June 1886, Page 2

MOOR TRIALS.

Tho vagaries of the Salvation jLv at Lindmoss are becoming notorious. About two years ago a zealous '.' Captain," stationed at Brampton barracks, gained for himself the name of "the donkey rider," because' he burlesqued Christ's entry into Jerusalem, ;by : attempting to ride a stubborn donkey at the head of a monster Salvation Artny procession. On Thursday evening tliis 'was out-rivalM by a mock trial being held in the barracks, which .was absurdly called "an inquest on the devil;" The Court was conducted in an orthodox manner, and counsel addressed the . Judge for and against the defendant,. The devil was charged first, with " sowing seed by the wayside second, with causing thorns to choke the seed ; third; with causing drunkenness ; and fourth, with hardening l , the heart. AVitnesses gave evidonce that although his Satanio Majesty was not seen in person in the dock, one. witness had seen him some time ago in hw domicile dressed in black clothes with a belltopper on hia head. The Judge, ~Captain Laurenson, summed up against'the devil, and pronounced him guilty, but lie Btated nevertheless that he was Btill alive. The verdict of the jury was not asked for, but "his son" made an earnest appeal to . those present to fight against the devil, whom they had pronounced guilty of the charge laid against him. Thera was a large attendance, and it is almoncedlesa to say there was much interruption, policemen having to be called in. The enquiry lasted about an hour and a half. —Exchange.