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NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 6

"Judicious borrowing" mostly j means Jew dish us. "The Fall of Man" is not so important as the rise of woman. ' ' The mills of the world grind slow[ly but they don't erind fair for all. We. forgive that man everthing who forgives himself nothing— Buddhist text. . WanganuiV period of ten days' sobriety was ended the other evening, when the police arrested an old friend of the Court on a charge of drunkenness, m. the person of Johnßourke O'Brfen. He was brought before the 'Magistrate, and when -asked how he pleaded, led off, as usual,, m a long, rambling statement as to his innocence. The Bench took compassion on the redoubtable John arid discharged him. \ ■ • • \ / ■ ■. •. * Oh the test trip of the Warrimoo, which arrived from Sydney, on Wednesday,'a 'passenger who had the misfortune to possess- a, German name, though a. New Zealand native returning after a , trip abroad, was shopped by a triperbrained .: Customs officer and compelled to 'pass an examinationin the English language. What he and other passengers used to the silly fool was "slanguage." S A flash 'ni'ffnfti .of fift and ltot weight, foully insulted a gentleman of middle-age and .a little lady of sixteen, from one of our theatres, on Lambton Quay, on Friday. The little lady was dismissed and the gentleman followed.- the foul-mouthed hoodlum and dealt with him as much as he could before ±he thing ran for its life. It is known, however, and wrll; hear— and feel— more of it. The Council is one of .the very worst offenders against the laws ■ of sanitation m the dirty city of Wellington.. A visit to the yards on Clyde Quay will prove this to the most sceptical. The place is disgustingly ' dirty, *"and rats fairly swarm all over the shop, from the waterfront to the quay fence. Mayor HisJop should be summoned and made an object lesson of m the interests of the sanitation of the city over which he is Mayor. . There is a. lady at the .Zibishun who can't understand' why she can't advertise her wares on , a couple of statues faring her tea room m the •main corridor. One is the Greek god, Anollo Belvf dere, and the other a nicely chiselled nymph of the same nationality. The tea and tart woman has been hanging out signs on these figures relative to the juicy oyster and other toothsome falccments. And the Zibishun people have ■bepn objecting with great violence, and they collared Lor cards. Then she kicked and said she would refuse to pay her royalty, the reply being; that she'd have to clear if she didn't. So she got the worst of .it. The lady had no respect at all for Apollo or Diana, or whatever her name is, and why she didn't hang her cl</-hes out to dry on the statues is a-f ,>fcct mystery;.