LET THERE BE LIGHTS!

NZ Truth, Issue 105, 22 June 1907, Page 3

LET THERE BE LIGHTS!

MORE JACKY HUME RUU&£

Under the rule of Major Hume, the condition of affairs m the Permanent Artillery is still tyery unsatisfactory.-i When Jacky was sent Home for instruction he must have been bounced and bullied most shamefully by the Imperial officers, and. he evidently intends v to 'make the poor permanents pay for what he had to grin and bear while m Eng3and. ; Last week" two gunners m the Mt. Cook barracks were discovered with other than the regulation lights m- their quarters, that is to say, they were using sixteen candle-power electric burners in~ stead of the orthodox lights. In consequence, they were brought before Lieutenant Ivan Standish and charged WITH THIEVING- THE GLIMMERS from the Quartermaster. The men pleaded their innocence, and declared that the lamps had been served out to them Khrougih a mistake of the Quartermaster, but as the latter denied making such a mistake, the gunners, were practically held to be guilty. The Lieutenant, however, being a r man of limited- authority, could only remand .-the, culprits pending the arrival of tbe all-supreme Majah, w\ho was down South at the time. Before his superior came back, the Lieutenant with tbe Russian name bad remanded the alleged offenders about six times, so tiuat the men were confwisd to barracks for a week. Finally, when Hume arrived, one of the offend- | ers had three days late leave stop- | ped, and bad «to go for a week without) light, while tba second, who was not deemed so serious an offender, merely bad bis light withheld for the period named.