THAT “MORNING AFTER FEELING” IN THE DOCI,

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6865, 21 March 1929, Page 7

THAT “MORNING AFTER FEELING” IN THE DOCI,

INEBRIATE REMANDED TO RECUPERATE* Obviously with that “morning after** : feeling weighing heavily upon him. a i man named Anton Anderson stepped into the dock of the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning and clasping his head in his hands, leaned upon the dock rail. Only the previous morning ho had presented a similarly distressed appearance in the same position and had been chastened with a fine as tho official mark of disapproval for an over-indulg-ed thirst. Reminiscent of that illfated schooner Hesperus which so tho poet tells us “sailed the stormy sea,” was his second matinee appearance yesterday for according to Seregant .Joyce he had once again fared forth and drowned his sorrows in tho flowing bowl. Forbearing to over emphasise tho obvious, the sergeant pointed out that the prisoner was scarcely in a fit state to be discharged and left to the mercies of an unsympathetic world. He suggested that he be given until Friday morning to rocuperate in tho restful quiet of the watch house. Dispensing the quality of mercy, the 1 presiding justices fell in with the sergeant’s suggestion and ordered the remand. . “All right” remarked the invalid in a tone of. confirmed melancholy as tho sergeant bore him away to convales< eenck dj \