NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12494, 22 March 1909, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A young man named Frank Hutchinson was brought before Mr T. AY. Bradshaw, J.P., at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, charged with drunkenness and resisting the police. Accused pleaded guilty to both charges. Constable McGrath gave evidence that on the previous afternoon accused, who was .under the influence of liquor, accosted him, and asked the time. Witness told him he 'could sec the time from the post office clock, but despite warnings from the constable to go home quietly, accused "nagged away" at him until he was compelled to take him in charge. He went quietly until opposite tho Cash Drapery Company's premises, when accused turned on the constable. The attack was so violent that the constable was compelled to throw accused on tbe footpath to break his hold. He continued to struggle violently, kicking _ m all directions, and additional police assistance was telphoned for. Constable Drummond arrived 'on the scene, and accused, not without difficulty, was put into an express and taken to the lock-up. Sergeant Dougan said the man was evidently mad with drink. The presiding Justice said the police must be protected, and he would inflict a fine of £10, or in default 32 days' imprisonment on the charge of resisting the police ; on the charge of drunkenness, accused would be convicted and discharged.

A poor old man who applied to the Lambeth Guardians, England, for help had reduced cheap living to a fine art. He had been existing for some time on sixpence a week. When i* was decided to give him 2s a week he exclaimed that the New Year would indeed be more prosperous for him now.

A baby monkey, a native of Rotorua. escaped from tho monkoy-house in the grounds recently, and got away into the manuka. Here it was chased by Mr King, and whilo leaping from bush to bush a branch broke, . and the animal fell into a pool of boiling mud, and was scalded to death.

An extraordinary accident happened to a man named Arthur Williams, employed as a wheat-lumper at the Hopetoun railway station, last week (says the Melbourno "Argils.") Tlie night being very hot, he decided to sleep on the top' of a stack of wheat 17 bags high. Shortly after midnight he dreamt that he was at. work, and appeared to see a load of ~ wheat approaching. He arose to hasten to- . wards the load, with the result that he walked right off the stack, and only awakened, when he struck the ground about 20ft below. -He is now under the. care of Dr. Mejidelsohn, suffering from a broken wrist and bruises on various parts of the body.

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