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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 20 July 1920, Page 7

-The Mayor has received a letter from ;General Sii- William Birdwoou, thanking .-him for the warmth of Hawera's rec-ep-tion to him, and for the hospitality ex- - tended to him and Captain Ward. * The •General stated that be woiH have liked to have spent at least a week, during which he knew he _\ ould ha /3 found himvself fully interested in the district. His Worship the Mayor has been advised by the Commissioner of Police that a married constable has been detailed to 'proceed to Hawera at once, and another constable will be detailed - as soon as possible for Hawera. Irish witnesses sometimes do give _ practical exhibitions of the queer sentences universally accredited to the .sons of Erin's Isle. One such was endeavoring to describe to his Honor Mr Justice Cooper and a'jury at Auckland * what he thought was the condition of two men. In answer to Mr Moody he -said, "Yes, the men were muddled with - drink, but sure they were sober • and . knew what they were doing. But one man w Tas drunker than the other." Soon afterwards one of the men said he was "sprung.'* Endeavoring to make his meaning clear, he stated that he was "stunned." The jury were grinning broadly, when Mr * Tole asked, "Stunned; what's that?" "You know what that means," said Mr Moody. "When a man hag taken such a considerable amount of alcoholic refreshment that he is, in other words, <lruhk." Then a policeman leant over to the Star *;reporter and whispered: "They wer c 'squiffy. s'' "When I first had to deal with domestic cases I was inclined to think that the men were always to blame, but since I have come so much into contact with matrimonial disputes, I am convinced that the fault lies equally on both sides."" Thus spoke Mrs Mary Wall ington, Adelaide's woman J.P. for the last five years. It appears that Adelaide leads Australia in, the number and success of its women justices, and, of the Adelaide successes Mrs Walling, ton is acknowledged "facile princeps." Sometimes when the business of the Court is very heavy she takes a hand mt committing burglars for trial, fining and assaults and batterers, and ■gaoling petty thieves.