AFTER FORTY-SIX YEARS,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1275, 2 November 1911, Page 5

AFTER FORTY-SIX YEARS,

A COINCIDENCE. It is now just about forty-six years ago sinco first Anglican Church was opennt Karori, and it is ratlier a strange coincidence that tho reverend gontlcman—tho Ven. Archdeacon Harper to wit—who conducted tho opening sarvica then, should havo performed a similar ceremony last evoning in the new stone building, built to replace that old wooden one which ho consecrated so many years ago. Seven others who attended last evening's function were also prosent on tho first 6ion.

The vexed question: "When is a man drunk?" was once again raised in the Magistrate's Court yesterday when Goo. Monk appeared boforo Mr. ltiddell, S.M., to answer a chargo of having been drunk while in charge of a horso and cart at Knrori on October 27. Constable M'Anorin, of Knrori, stated that Monk was drunk on the day in question, and ho was supported in this assertion by several other polico witnesses and one civilian. Mr. Jackson, who conducted tho defence, ca.led a number of. Karori residents, who gave evidence of which tho general purport was that, although Monk had unquestionably had sonio liquor oa tho day "r! 1 f ' le charge referred, he was nevertheless perfectly capable of looking after a horse and cart. Monk admitted, under examination, that lie had been onco convicted of drunkenness four years previously, but denied positively that he was drunk upon that occasion. As to tho prcfiont affair, he stated that a false step as he entered his cart, tho slipping of a scat, unci the starting of the vehiclo over rough metal, had momentarily overcome his equilibrium and deceived the arresting constable. It was admitted, and, indeed, suggoslod by tho defence, that tho indignation of defemlant subsequent to his arrest might havo heightened the impression that ho was in an abnormal state at the llie magistrate, in adjudicating, remarked that both sots of witnesses had Bcrpeil that Monk had had some liquor, This, however, was not sufficient to prove that ho was drunk, and the information would accordingly bo dismissed.

"Ono of those unfortunate eases in which a mother has overlain her child " was the coroner's remark 011 recording 'a finding of-accidental denth nt an inquest on a three-wceks-old infant at Timaru yesterday.

This trip at Sydney tho Moeraki was fit ted with tho Australian Wireless Company's apparatus, and during tho run .-k-tow the instruments worked well flif Acuity wns oxporiouc-ed in communicating with Wellington, however, and it was not until the eve of the vessel's arrival in port that anything like a "conversation" could bo maintained.

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