SPARKLETS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11867, 28 June 1924, Page 15

SPARKLETS

from the home courts. "Woman at Willesden: I met my huebend with hie drinking partner. Man accused of drunkenness at Acton: I plead guilty under protest. East London husband : She became fascinated with my uniform and married me. I am a railway l porter. Policeman in Lancashire: I saw him attempting to pick a woman's pocket. Prisoner: Liar-. She hadn’t one. East London husband: I had a shock when I was at the front in France. Wife: Yes; they made him wash his face. Norfolk wife: My husband has not been at home in the evening for nine years. He is ill oil day and goes out at night. Magistrate’s clerk at Stratford: Is your husband able to maintain youP Wife: I don’t know, but ho 6ent the child a Christinas card. Tottenham magistrate to a woman who bit another woman: I have questioned whether I ought not to order your teeth to bo drawn. Devonshire magistrate: Was ho drunk when ho used this language? Policeman: No, sir. Offender, indignantly: That is false! I was. Mr Philip Baker (at Birmingham Police Court) : "These pecmle, your Worship. live in terrible conditions, but you know how difficult it is with the present shortage of houses.” The Magistrate: "Yes, Mr Baker, there is a shortage of houses, but in this case there seems to be a. serious shortage qf common sens a.”

A very instructive lecturo on the sub ject of oil and lubrication was given t< members of the Institute of Marim Engineers last evening by Mr W. J. Galloway, lubricating expert and engineer of the British Imperial Oil Company (N.Z.). Ltd. The lecturer traced the history ot oil back to the periods of its formation by the engulfing of vast tropical giowths in huge fissures in the earth’s surface, the discovery by of this important and valu-

able product and the evolution which gives us the finished article of commerce which we have to-day. -A hearty . otc of thanks was accorded the lecturer for the very able manner in. which ho had dealt with such an impoit. tant subject. The cat was unknown in England till the ninth or tenth oentury, when there was a document stating that a mtfn would be fined fourpence for killing a*Cat. and aiehtnence if he killed the king's cat*