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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 819, 26 June 1879, Page 2

A Pious Fraud. — A man must live. Some years ago a lay, reader, of the Church of England, m Egerton, eked out a small income by robbing a bank of about £2000 worth of gold, besides,; stuffing his pockets with as many notes \ as he judged between man and man. He sold the gold m Sydney and purchased a yacht, and proceeded to test practically the definition of " pomps and vanitieß." He was caught, and * seryedx 7 years m Pentridge. The ex-reverehd; was recently seen through the upper window of the Unicorn Hotel, Ballarat, m evening costume, holding foifth to an applaudingcrowd who had paid for admission. He undertakes to show that Pentridge is a universiiy of crime, and that criminals are -made there, not reformed. . ' / In the Auckland Police Court, according to the Evening Star, an elderly man named Anthony Cowan, wished to make an application to the Bench for protection. . The Bench : Well, what is it 1 Applicant : Your Worship, lam continually haunted by three spirits, calling themselves the brothers Hokitika, and they say they have been commissioned 'by Prince Alfred to murder me* The Bench : Did you ever offend the Prince? Applicant : Never, > The Bench: We have no influence, m the spirit world, and cannot bind the spirits over to keep the peace. Applicant : But couldn't you bottle them up. SubInspector Pardy said that Constable Hogan knew all about the: spirits, and by his magic spell would quiet them. The Applicant clapped his bauds, and was taken to the guard room, where he awaits medical examination.