A GRIEVANCE.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sib,— The month of April is drawing to a close, and aa yet the salaries due to a portion of the officials for the month of jMarch remain unpaid. Probably this is owing to the present stupid arrangements and the centralising policy of the General Government, and the desire of the Empire City to make fools of us all. — I am, &c., A Maboh Hare.
An Owl's Revbnge.— The Avrandtin states that in * commune near Avranches an owl has taken terrible vengeance for the loss of her young, which had been killed by a fanner's lad. For four days the owl was on the watch for the destroyer ; and on the fifth, upon the boy leaving the farmhouse, the injured bird, which had been perched upon a tree, pounced down upon him, and with one stroke of its claws tore out his left eye, the sight of which ia permanently destroyed. Fontenelle described a lover as a man who, in his anxiety to obtain possession of another, loses possession of himitlf,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3039, 23 April 1867, Page 4
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181A GRIEVANCE. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3039, 23 April 1867, Page 4
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