"PICKLED?" PICKNICKERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 250, 9 April 1910, Page 6

"PICKLED?" PICKNICKERS.

A Fiver's Worth of Foolishness.

They sell pretty sudden whisky at Little Ittver, if. the. .word of certain ''victims from. BeHast freezing works can be taken: The sheep destroyers chartered a special train, for -their annual picnic a short. while ■ back, .and, i&e elements frowned upon the caber prise with watery .eyes. .There is no shelter at the sniall, and the local pub. yawns to receive casual visitors. It dida'-t yawn iin vain.. The happenings after, sundry , visits .to /the pub. wese violent and mixed, and the/'escHTsion will live long m the irecollecJnon of all. . Next day there were, many, absentees from work, and some suffered a recovery by having rehairs of the . quadruped that had r bitten them. Three young feßlows blew, into the BeHast Hotel at I^o p.m. m : the afternoon, strong m beer, and were refnsed refreshment, whereupon they add>cd /a number of choice expletives to the kxtfyvm list of words m the English lan- , guage, and created such a row that the police were sent for. John Taplin and James Wifson appeared m Christchurch S.M.s- Court on-Tues-day., charged, with obscene language and refn/sing to leave licensed premises, athiijd person being absent through failure/to serve , him witti a summons. The nr/nds of both Taplin and Wilson were a 'complete blank concerning the , matter, fxwd they practically pleaded ■guilty. Wily.son men<aone4 the JLittie River excur-^ sion, and its disastrous results. "We'had fsotao whisky down /theEe," he remarked, "and.were very had iext morntug. EveryJbody' at the picnic who had whisky .was ! bad next day." H6s Worship sufmised that the brand was specially kept for the picnic. .. Both picnickers wece fined a liver and rcosts, m default one month at the honorary job of napping stones.