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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13306, 16 February 1914, Page 2

One effect of the strike -, -which is still) causing inconvenience is delay m the - delivery of coal (says the Dominion), ' orders being taken only on the understanding that they cannot be executed for 10 days. . ';

A. H. Hasell, of, Yorketown, South. Australia, had a narrow escape from a sh'ak. He was spearing butterfish •at Marion. Bay by lantern light, and whenwading towards the rooks, m about- 3ft of water;, was seized by 'a tiger rsharjc' and dragged into, the water, but forjun^ ately the shark lost its hold, and Hasellscrambled on to the rocks and escaped-'*

"Tlie accused, who says lie just TvejftV: there out of curiosity, had ho" business there," remarked the 'Chief Justice (Sir* Robert Stout) - ' Wellington' i&.-.-t— e : course of summing up m a case m whien a man was charged with taking part in' a riot. "If there is a riot," continued, his Honor, "the prisoner ought to have ,q-ot out of it. In* strictest lawy 'even if . he was doing nothing, he ' Was liable' to be arrested for taking part. The. ,aa« sumption of the law is that if a man goes to an unlawful assembly, he goesthere with the intention of 'taking part therein."