Tigers from the Kiiniaon Hill, Calcutta, which had been killing cattle and terrorising the inhabitant* of neighboring districts were brought to bay by a small pack of bull-terriers, and were despatched before either tiger had overcome his astonishment at> the audacity nt his siraugo small assailants.
Women must not knit in Court, according to the edict ot :in English • ) udge. Justice Horridge announced this when he slopped lieu ring testimony at I lie Sussex Assizes on seeing two well-dressed women seated near the dock plying I heir needles industriously. lie called an ollieer and told him to stop tile women from knitting, hut hel'ore the Court ollieial reached (he women they were lilhal with eonslernalion on finding nil eyes turned upon them, and Imndling up their knitting, I hey lilusliingly lowered their g;i/.e to the floor. The Justice stated that anything similar to knitting which is liable to distract the attention ot the Judge hearing testimony would not he allow ed in his Court.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 8
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