MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Fifteen mongoose (says a contemporary) hare been imported to Southland from India by Mr C. Bas.stian to kill rabbit*. In rep'y to a question as' od in the House of Commons it wus s*a:ed that the cost of tho ceremony at, Delhi of proclaiming Queen Victoria Empress of India was £65,000. In the opinion of the Go. vermnent tho political ad-.'ania^os likely to accrue therefrom are cheap at the pric. We .(Marlboroagh Express) learn that since the request of ibe police to certain persons to shift their quarters to " fresh fields aivl pastures new " a discovery has been made in the room vacated by one of them of a number of gambling instruments, inclusive of a tool foA maiking extra Xi">9 on dice, mar.. ing cards, &c. A Duaeilin lawyers aliened to have nrcp:.red a bill oi' salo to enable a debtor to defraud his creditors, and, not being paid his bill of costs wrote to his clients' creditors, saying that if they would engage him he would show thorn ihe bill of sole was prepare 1 1 ) defraud thoin. The Law Society U es^ee'ed to take the mattor.up.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 24, 4 June 1877, Page 3
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