MISCELLANEOUS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1110, 13 March 1879, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A correspondent of the Pastoral Times suggests that the apprehension of the Kelly gang be let by tender, the lowest price, of course, to be the already offered rewards, with "hunting" expenses added. j A noteworthy instance of commercial morality j| is made known by Mr Bancroft, of Liverpool. Not very long ago he received an unsigned letter, in which was enclosed a bank note for £IOOO. The only information given by the •sender was that the bank note was the amount of an old debt and accumulated interest, which he was sorry not to have been in a position before. The recipient has not the slightest idea from whom he has received this conscience money. A writer in the European Mail states that Jim Mace, the ex-pugilist champion, has two sons who are preachers among the Plymouth Brethern, one of them being a young man of unusual promise and ability. "Atticus," in the Melbourne Leader, writes >—" The Hebraic money-lender is popularly supposed to stand upon the ' forfeit of his bond' as implacably as Shylock did. Hardup of the Sealingwax Office who has conducted financial with both Jew and Christian, denies the correctness of the theory. Someone was running down the rarjacity and hardness of Jewish discounters in his presence the other day. ' Don't believe a word of it,' replied he ; ' I'm just now in the hands of a Presbyterian minister, and I find him a harder nut to crack than any Jew money-lender I ever dealt with." „ , . v , Constable Purcell is blessed with a large amount of very grim humour (says the Manawatu Herald), and effected a most rapid transi tion in the position of Dr. Rockstrow lately, taking him from the Bench to the dock. It occurred in this wise. The doctor had just fininished hearing a case for horses wandering, and the constable strolled to the door, when lo ! there was the J. P.'s veritable cow roaming the streets in the sacred precints of the Court. To take out a sommons and serve it on Dr. Rockstrow was the work of a few moments, and the Court was again opened to hear the case, resulting in a dismissal. The constable very blandly explained to the Court that he brought the charge " entirely to show the public that there was no favouritism." Sundry coughs were heard, however, as the constable made his speech, and the merry twinkle which flashed across his eye rather suggested the idea that Purcell himself thought the whole affair a capital joke.