TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

"TILL HELL FREEZES!" M4N WHO. WOULDN'T TAKE THE OATH. [BX MLSaJtAMI— B»CU£ TO TH« POM.) CHKISTCHURCH, This Day. A young man -who set out to harangue the Bench at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning on the subject of civil liberty, was not permitted to progress far with, his rhetoric. A number of cases of refusal to take the oath, of allegiance were being heard, and tho defendant in one case — Cuthbevt L. S. Beary — was charged with refuting to take the oath. His mannex' throughout was offensively loud and swaggerin". Striding forward with a ridiculous " do cr die ' air, he began by curtly demand- i ing that "ofc- military friend' (pointing j to the sergeant in Court) should go into the box. Hs admitted that he was a British subject, but elated that he was not liable under the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, -which over-redo the New ' Zealand law ; also the Treaty of Limerick, which exonerated Irishmen from military service. Assuming a dictatorial attitude, he proceeded to loudly point out to the Bench his perfect right to please himself in the matter; but was brought up with a run by a fine of 40s and costs. " Well," ho said, " you can put me in gaol till Hell freezes, but I aron't pay that fine." His ignominious ejection from the "Court immediately followed.