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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9867, 25 March 1893, Page 7 (Supplement)

The Panama scare, it appears, has been turned to account by some audacious rogues. Four scoundrels, professing to be a Commissary of Police and his agents, went to the house of the Marquis Panisse-Passis, in the Avenue Marcian, where nobody was living but the concierge, or porter, and his wife. Pretending they had warrants for their ar* rest, they handcuffed both of them, and then literally swept the house of all its valuables. These were carried away in two carriages, and it was not until three o’clock in the morning that the unhappy pair could extricate themselves from bondage, and give notice of the robbery. ' Young clergymen in the bush, says 4 Aulas * in the Australasian, often find themselves in an awkward position when trying to talk seriously to bushmen who are not ill enough to be frightened, but whose thoughts they wish to coax from the worldly towards the spiritual. His imagery—the brand marked genuine by Professor Rentoul—is somewhat puzzling to the bushman, while the bushman’s idiom, forcible though it may be, is not designed for church purposes. . Still the pastor must do his best, and a trainee of Ormond was doing his best lately with an old western shepherd, ‘ Have you ever heard,’ he asked, 4 of the great shepherd who musters the largest flock in the world,’ * I doan know as I ’ave,’ was the reply. 4 I’ve ’eard a lot of ’em blow, in my time, as to what they could handle, but you take my tip. Boss, it depends altogether on the kind o’ dog you got.’