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NZ Truth, Issue 111, 3 August 1907, Page 8

It is enough to, annoy a fellow to hold a dishonored cheque of a man to whom he owes a fiver. There is a time m youth when instinct asserts itself over instruction ; that is the period of danger. A couple of weeks back a youthful fireman from one of the vessels m Wellington port went on the jamboree, and began to see. things . after a few days. He rushed out on to -the rocks at Island Bay to escape several moas and tuatara lizards that were pursuing him,- and as they still encroached upon Oils 1 disordered vision, he plunged into the sea. A passerby named Dayey, who viewed these roceeddngs with astonishment, jumped' m. after the beer victim and rescued him from the hapuka m -the vicinity. Yesterday morning the young man appeared before Magistrate Riddell clothed m his right mind. Pleading guilty, his Worship gave him a chance, on the understanding that he took a prohibition order out against himself. It is a sign of the time that to the Upper-class little is too low, and to the Lower-class little is too high. It isn't often a person gets out of the clutches of the police, once he has been nabbed. Recently, at the Lower Hutt, a man named Michael Regan was offering to sell jewellery to casual passers-by. He accosted a constable, m plain clothes, and tried to make a deal with him for.tirinkets, but it didn't occur to the bobby that they weren't Regan's. The temporary hawker also pressed a barmaid to invest, but without success. Then James Sullivan, of the Hutt, missed family jewels and heirlooms to the value of £90 2s, and the constable fell over himself m his eagerness to apprehend Regan. Sullivan's valuables were pawned with hypobhecaitors Griffiths and Zimon, who failed to identify Regan. That individual was twice before the Court at Wellington, and chief crime investigator MeG-rath reluctantly withdrew the charge. It was like drawing a. tooth without an an'aesJthetic. :.-/J- w