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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1845, 15 April 1863, Page 5

Infallibility of the Female Sex.—-The ladies have a belief that Parisian corsets wear much longer than any othar ones, and the dear creatures are right, as they always are, for we beg leave to point to the occupation of Rome by Louis Napoleon's army as an incontestable proof of how exceedingly lasting French Stays are.

Legal Liberality.—We take the following advertisement from the Lno Times : —''Law.—Wanted, a clerk who has a fair knowledge of abstracting, drawing deeds, and a fair accountant. Salary, £\ per week. Office hours, nine to one, and two to six. Address A. Z.," &c. The law is said to be a " liberal" profession, but there are certainly exceptions to its rule of liberality, and one of these exceptions is the offer which we quote. A pound a week for working eight hours a day is precisely at the rate of fivepence an hour ; and to earn this handsome salary the clerk must have some brains and have the knowledge how to use them in doing something more than the mere drudgery of the desk. He must be a fair accountaut, and know how to diaw a deed and we presume that he will be required to come to office with a tolerably decent-looking coat upon his back. How he will support himself (and probably a family) upon his pound a week, is more than we at present feel competent to guess : but it would not much surprise us to hear that an accountant who was so badly paid tried to keep himself from starving by cooking his accounts. Low wages are a terrible temptation to dishonesty, and an accountant who|possesses a knowledge of " abstracting" would be likely, if half-fed, to turn his thoughts some day to the abstraction of the cash box, an i, besi'le the other deeds with which he was entrusted, he might execute the deed of drawing a forged cheque.