HAUGHTY HAWKINS.

NZ Truth, Issue 326, 23 September 1911, Page 6

HAUGHTY HAWKINS.

THE CHAPPY AND THE CHEQUE.

A "Remittance" Rotter.

Tho "blawsted kawlonies" serve an admirable purpose as the dumping ground for the wasters of Bull's country, who are furnished with occasional remittances instead of a lump sum with which they might drink themselves underground and trouble p a no more. Charles Roland George Hawkins is the son of a big boot manufacturer m Britain, and ! was deported to this debt-ridden country on account of his swift mode of living, if his own' yarns of gilded experience are to be believed. In New Zealand he carried on the same old game and brought tho silvery hair or bald pate of his paternal relative with sorrow to the cash box, until father got tired of pulling Charles Roland George OUT OF THE FINANCIAL MUCK j and stopped golden supplies.- Then ! the Hinglish hopeful, who has about 'attained his majority, started m the 1 valueless cheque industry m Welling-J-ton raid Christchurch and spent the proceeds mi n wine, motor cars, and females. lie was safely housed by a paternal Government and given useful toil, but having served a short term was liberated, and commenced operating on a purely imaginary I bank balance once more. The Com-

I * . — , . , I j rnercial restaurant, Christchurch, , was victimised to the extent of 30s, hut a further attempt to squeeze an ! illegal "fiver" out of the manage- i ment failed, and the undesirable iirij migrant found himself again under detention. . . Hawkins, the effect of whose stylish suit was somewhat marred by a soiled collar, acknowledged his attempt to become a temporary mil- j lionaire. j Chief Detective Bishop mentioned j that the young mail extended his j disastrous patronage to the Domin- I ion. two or three years previously. J The boss sleuth didn't know if j Charles Roland George had been cast j adrift m New Zealand by his people, but if such were the case IT WAS A SPIAME. His preyious excursion into crime when left short of funds w r as recounted, the chief expressing the \ opinion that the accused was defi- | cient about the interior of his top- | I piece, and should t-eceive medical ex- ! i amination. I } Our unwelcome visitor informed the i j Bench that when he came tip from ! jl-laniner he anticipated receiving cash ' .'from 'Ome wlrch Would enable him ; to catch an out-going boat, and leave New Zealand a vanishing speck [ on the horizon. He was disappoint- f e-d, and had raised the wind, which ', • had subsequently developed into a j disastrous gale, m the manner de- • scribed. It was the irony of fate ' that the cash should have come to hand afterwards, and Missioner ►Smaill actually held n sum sufficient to pay his . passage to the apple country of Tasmania. It would have been A GOOD INVESTMENT FOR THIS COUNTRY to have permitted' Hawkins to ship to Vandemcnia, but conscientious Magistrate Bailey thought it best that Findlay's fad should have another victim. Hawkins' was senj tenced to three months' imprisonj~nient, Vl nd ordered to be detained for I three years for reformative treatjinent. If the young man gave cvii dence of improved behavior he might ] be. liberated at the pleasure of the authorities.