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New Zealand Mail, Issue 117, 12 July 1873, Page 7

An Auckland paper declares that that city is "evidently fairly in for another epidemic in the old familiar form of a mining swindling mania." Those were dear kisses, remarks the " Sydney Empire," in which the captain of the British Commodore indulged in on his -way to this port. The board appointed to investigate the case have fined him £259 3s 9d (estimated, we suppose, a t so much per kiss), deprived the surgeon of his gratuity, and the matron of half of hers, and disqualified both for future emigrant vessels. This is sharp justice, we should like to see the evidence *hich has rendered it necessary. The captain, we understand, is naturally indignant at his treatment, and says that it }* the old story of woman's ingratitude. *f he hadn't kissed the girls they would have kissed him, which would have come *p much the same tiling—and in any case they were villains to kiss and tell.