AN OBJECT LESSON.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2051, 4 December 1924, Page 3

AN OBJECT LESSON.

I notice that the Government are having long discussions with Russia, and it does not look as if those negotiations are coming to much. Supposing you have the trade with Russia you had before the war, it does not amount to more than your trade with New Zealand. There are many people who think that these Russians should not be here, but I think it is an excellent thing to have them here. The great country which was going to start a new system of Communism and destroy capital is here in England to-day asking for capital; the people who have murdered all their capitalists are here on their knees to our capitalists begging for loans to start their businessess again. Ido not think they are going to get. much of our capital unless they can give better assurances than they have done. —Sir Robert Home, M.P.

To be shepherded to the police station and there searched as the result of an utterly unfounded charge was the unpleasant experience of two Christchurch young men. An elderly man and the two younger men were together in a lift in one of the city's busiest blocks of buildings. On reaching his stopping place the old man discovered that he did not at the moment possess his watch. He immediately accused the two young men of stealing it from him, and went so far as to get the police and have them escorted to the station and searched. The search, however, failed to bring the timepiece to light. Not altogether satisfied with the old man's story, the police suggested that he should return home and make sure he had not left the watch behind him. He did as requested, and it was not long before he was back with the watch in his possession and full of apologies to the two young men he had accused.