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NZ Truth, Issue 183, 19 December 1908, Page 4

W. H. Munro having left the "Dominion," his position has been fined by Air A. H. Blanton, late of the Bristan* i "Daily Mail," which, by a coincidence, | is the Queensland Squattah's orgau. , j A philanthropist m Chicago confesses j to having obtained something like £150, % 01)0 by forgeries. /If this news gets J about some of our professional phihntro- <\ phists wilJ be off to Shecawgo for -a trial run. There may be wheels within wheels and all that kind of thing, but ihey certainly manage their motor ma tiers bt-ttet m Knglaud than we do m New Zealand. A chaffeur m Hold Hingland, convicted ol manslaughter, has been jugged for a year after which time he is to be transported. / '•Critic" was going home late the- otner t night just about on the tic* of 12 6'cLock^.^-^ when out of a dark, secluded corner came a, decently-clad woman, who boarded a tram car. She had not been drinking, but she had been doing something else, and she was evidently 'an amateur at the game. The half-crown she bad earned as fiie wages of sin proved to be a piece of lead. Some rapscallion bad rung it m on her, and she had to dig up a virtuous "ttray bit" for the tram fare. h. P. Gill, well known m many parta of New Zealand as a successful insurance manager, andMatterly running iho familiar hair tonic 'VVioletta,' conceived the brilliant idea m (. htislchULch on election day to advise the public to -o'e for "Wioletta." When tiie man had been out some hours Gill heard casually- ihat it was necessary to obtain a permit to sandwich about the streets, and be rush- , ed frantically round to the Council ollice « and applied for same. He heard there ] that such permits had to be dealt with j by the Council as a whole, which seems i to be a silly sort of business when the j Town Clerk might have full executive i power to issue them. Gill was subse- f qu'ently prosecuted for employing a sand- 1 wich man without permission, and. ex- § plained that he had »beon quite ignorant | 61 the by-law on the subject and also 1 that the man who carried the boards § was a cripple and would be deprhed ot i a livelihood if the law were rigorously § enforced. An uuleeling Bench, however", § fined him five bob and costs, ana Gill i suggested that the money be handed over I to the cnipple. H«»we*er, the Govern- I ment aeve'r does anything like that, and I the hair tonic gen lt:.ian '.vent on his i way dejectedly, al'Hou.-Ji he had secured I a good advertisement for his wool-^row* I er. The un'indost c-t of all, however, I as Shakespeare says, wai the ingratitude I of the cripple, who -lemauded his exes. I for attending the court as a witness and 1 which GUI had to pay* . |