NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

JUDGE’S STORY OF FRANK LITIGANT.

How the Court is hound by wliat a litigant says in evidence, and not by what his counsel says for him 'afterwards, was illustrated by tlio following story told by Mr Justice Bailhacho in the King’s Bench: — “I was once counsel in a case in which fraud was alleged, and my client in tile witness-box was asked: 'Do you still persist in your charge of fraud after the evidence that lias been given?’ To my amazement and disgust, he raid: 'No/ (Laughter.) The lute Lord Russell of Killowen, who was trying the case, turned to me and said: 'What are you going to do now?’ I said: ‘Nothing.’ (Laughter.) Lord Russell turned to my client and said: ‘You have spoken like an English gentleman. There will .be judgment against you, with costs!’ (Laughter.) .There was nothing more to he said and we came away. (Laughter.)”

DADDY’S LONG STORY. How an “incident which nearly ended his career” occurred when, as Governor and representative of the King, lie opened the Parliament of South Australia was described by Sir Archibald Weigall to the London-Lincolns!) ire Society at their annual dinner. “Both Houses were assembled,” said Sir Archibald, “and the Ministers had given me a very long speech to deliver. My wife and daughter—aged six—were close to me. “When I got halfway through the address a shrill .voice rang through the Chamber, and I heard my little girl say, 'Mummy, when is Daddy going to stop his long story?’”

“INVENTED” BIRD

ZOO'S NEW .-j’OoTF/R-MOTHERS FOE. I’.MiE EGG'S.

A little hand of “invented” birds are just about to start their season’s work at the London Zoological Gardens. They have appeared as a sequel to a request which the Daily Mail was asked to publish, urging owners of ‘'silkies” to communicate with the Zoo. The “silkies” are a race of Chinese fowls whose women-folk have the most motherly hearts in the world. They have, one fault —feathery legs. These are apt to get damp in this country and. give their babies fatal coughs. When, therefore, the “silkies’’ reached the Zoo they were crossed wit'll the clean-legged Japanese bantams, and, the result was an "invented” breed of idea 1 fust e r-rn others. Rare pheasants’ eggs will he hatching out soon, and the babies are to he brought up by those curious nurses. One lien will tackle a.family of fifteen chicks, scratching for them and keeping them warm. They will also rear rare goslings or even wading birds. Their hearts are big enough to tackle tiny alligators.

AT 1,500 WEDDINGS. MAN WHO WITNESSED PEER’S SECRET MARRIAGE. For forty years registrar of marriages, during which time lie attended 4.585 weddings. Mr R. 11. Carnenter, of Weston. Bail), claims that he is the oldest overseer in the country. The most: notable of the weddings nt which he was a witness was that of Viscount Bolingbroke, on January 5, 1893, at the old North Parade registry office. . His lordship, who was then between 72 and,. 73 years of age. married Miss Mary Emily Elizabeth Howard, of Lydiard, near Swindon, who .was engaged in the house he was staying at. Tiie present Lord.,. Bolingbroke was horn in Gay Street, Bath, on March 15, 1896, but the event was kept as secretly as the fact of the marriage. When the father died in 1899, the then presumptive heir was astounded to be confronted with the unimpeachable evidence of tiie late peer’s second maiyiage, and with the little hoy heir.

THRASHED HIS MOTHER. TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TRUANT WJI.O RULED THE HOUSE. A hoy of twelve who, in the absence of his father, thrashed his mother, appeared before the Coventry magistrates. His mother was summoned for not sending the lad to school, but the attendance officer explained that the young hopeful was master of tiie situation. In addition to thrashing his mother, the boy had locked her out of the house and smashed the furniture. The hoy promised to attend school regularly, in future, and the luminous was dismissed.

ARGUMENT OF DEATH. EXCITEMENT OF A ‘ROW’ KILLS 18 STONE WOMAN. “Cal! your father; that hoy lias killed me. I am dying; good-bye all,” were said to have been the last words of Eliza Sanders, 51, who collapsed after an argument with a neighbor. At an inquest at Hammersmith it was Hated that*she weighed! over ISst. She got into a heated argument with a young man and was seen to go purple in the face. Medical evidence (showed that the deceased had a weak heart and Bright’s disease. The coroner, returning a verdict of death from .natural causes, remarked that the young man might have exercised more patience and goodhumor.

WHY HE KNEW. M.P. WHO COURTED FOUR SERVANTS. Speaking at Rochdale, Mr Stanley Burgess. M.P., said that, after a recent speech he made in the .House of Commons criticising the conditions of women employed in domestic service, a Conservative member came up to him and tiie following conversation took place:— The M.P.: You know. Burgess, you don’t know as much about the domestic servant question as I do. You sec, I employ four. Mr Burgess: That’s very interesting. You see, I courted four. The M.P.: Is that so? Mr B.: Yes, and I finished up by marrying one of them.

BAPTISM FASHIONS. MOTHERS WHO WANT THEIR BABIES “SPRINKLED.” Accounts of the christening of Princess Mary’s'-baby which mistakingly stated Unit “the baptism was by sprinkling” have caused many mothers to ask that their babies be similarly treated. One mother, who applied to the Rev. T. J. Bass, vicar of St. Lawrence. Birmingham, for baptism by sprinkling, produced a newspaper cutting in impport of her request. The Church lias always recognised only two methods of baptism, by “pouring” water, or by “immersion”; and the archbishop, in a letter to Mr Bass, says that he duly “observed; the yubric at Goldsborough and poured water over the child.”