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NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 5

Something swious has happened at Suva, owing to the temporary laying up of the steamer Clyde. ''We have been suffering from shortage pf supplies, for the first fortnight m the there was a regular famine m the wine and spirit line (says the 'Western Pacific Herald.') I don't know that this was an. unmixed calamity as a spell on the teetotal is often beneficial, especially after a little extra indulgence during the festive season." An old derelict on life's rocky strand, named Wilson, came before Magistrate McArthur the other day, charged with being a vag. Wilson had only come out of gaol after doing a three years' stretch for stabbin?, and was found wandering about the Basin Reserve m a state of semistarvation. Magistrate McArthur very reasonably observed that he could not send the old wreck to iraol just because he was what he was and packed him' off to the Ohiro Fo^c, where the chances are he won't stay.