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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 8

Charges of having t failed to attend parades as required by the Defend© Act were, brought; against H. 0. Botr trell and P. R. Maddock before Mr F. 08. Loughiiari this morning. SergtH Maljor Milroy explained tJhe oases.; Bottrell was informed that he';w;as : under a. misapprehension in supposing that.a certificate from his own doctorjustified him in ignoring his commanding officer's instructions t<)-re-port himself; to the Department's medical examiner. He-was fined Is withl 7s costs. Maddock was fined £2.with 7s costs. - A man with a peculiar sense of practical jokes "died in the Sydney Domain, opposite the Woolloomooloo police station; recently, but revived arid ran when a policeman, attracted by a large and curious crowd, came on the scene. The individual reached the spot he had chosen for his last resting-place, and stretched himself out on his back to die. His body convulsed, ■ his face twitched, and with a sickly gasp he "died.',' The cries of an eye-witness caused a crowd to/assemble, and fully a hundred persons gathered round in a circle. The man's heart and pulse were felt. "Not a beat," said someone who appeared to know everything; ' 'he is as dead as a doornail." Hats were mechanically lifted in reverence. "Better send for the police," whispered a woman, in awe. However, when the man saw aguardian of the law approach 'he re- , vived suddenly and decamped, and although t the constable gave chas© >■ he /jouM not' catch the "corpse. 17 >. •• i The fact that, it'takes quite number of words in Chinese to convey | the equivalent of "the whole truth" as spok-en in English is a verity well known to those who have heard a Chinese interpreter at work, and this fact caused some amusement in the Auckland Police Court recently. A Chinaman was being sworn in the Chinese fashion to speak the truth— holding a lighted match in his hand, the witness states, "If I do not speak the truth, may my hopes of heaven (or the Chinese equivalent) be blown out like this match," whereon he.blows out the matchlight. In the instance in question it was a wooden match that was used, and in .the perverse fSshion common to such matches the light quickly shrank and went out of its own accord. With his eye on the shrinking light, ~the witness Tiurt vied up his long .Chinese' formula,, as ■ much as one of his race could hurry in order to'get his "blow" before the , important,- but waning, matchlight committed suicide. But the light managed to beat him by a very small fraction of a second, and dissolved in I grnoke before it could be extinguished | by. the belated blow of the Chinaman's I breath. rhe magistrate thought i,t weli to follow up the incident by getI tmg tiie niterpretei- to impress on his I countryman that no matter what hap- ! pened to.his hopes in the hereafter, a hnlure to speak the truth would render him liable to seven years in gaol m the mortal flesh here. •■ = •

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