The Difference.

Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16991, 30 September 1927, Page 4

The Difference.

'■'There is a difference between drunkenness and intoxication," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court last week when dealing with a case in which a motorist was charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car. "A man who is drunk and causes his car to zig-dag up the street is a notent danger. A man who is intoxicated and is capable of driving, but is not in full possession of his sense of vision and ability to act promptly in a crisis, is a latent danger." The Retort Humorous.

"Do they play bowls at the Olympic Gaines?" asked an enthusiastic trundler at a meeting of Auckland sportsmen held last Wednesday evening to form an Auckland branch of the New Zealand Olympic Games Association. "I don't know if they play them, but they drink them," replied another enthusiast, amid laughter. Twelve Men Good and True.

To find the reason for 12 jurymen one has to go back to , very ancient times. The Northmen who conquered and settled* in Britain had a great veneration for the number 12. The same ideas were held by the Christian inhabitants of England,* chiefly because there were 12 patriarchs, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, and so on. When the selection of a number of men to give a verdict in a trial became a practice of the law, it was natural that this number,; with its sacred associations, should be chosen. Ever since "12 good men and true" have been called upon to, giive' their decision, and to-day nobody ever'dreams of substituting any other number in place of the sacred 12.