A DETECTIVE SOLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1107, 28 August 1880, Page 2

A DETECTIVE SOLD.

The Evening Star gives ; the following story of a too zealous detective as at present going the rounds in Dunedin : — "It appears that, acting on ' information received,' that branch of the force has for some tithe past been on the lookout for some alleged whisky .distillers. Early every Friday morning an individual of pepuliar appearance has been observed to come into town' from the direction of the Tomahawk, we will say, to drive his oart up to an establishment in Princes-street South, not a hundred miles from Stafford-street, and to carry down a right-of-way a suspicious-looking keg. This morning watch was kept by the detective in question and an assistant, who, from their preparations for effecting a capture, evidently thought that they had ' cornered ' the man this time. To make a long story short, our bucolic friend drove up at his : usual hour, alighted from his car tj shouldered his keg, and darted up the right-of-way with it. He was quickly followed by the detective, whose assistant darted through one of the adjacent shops to out off Iris .retreat in. the reap. Tiuy detective gaining on him, ordered him to stand and deposit the keg on the ground.- The} pursuedr one- evinced a disposition to refuse to comply ; but he afterwards; .recognised: the .officer's authority and handed the , keg ov er to the latter. The : eagerness with .which; the officer tapped that keg, and the look of disgust that covered his face when he discovered that it contained buttermilk, will not be : forgotten : in; : a. hurry by those who were witnesses of the affair. The detective and his assistant are said to have emerged from that right-of-way amidst a chorus of laughter.

Before marriage a girl frequently calls her intended " her treasure," but when he becomes her husband she looks upon him as "her treasurer."

To make both ends [mcct — Dine on ox-tail soup and potted head. A man without enemies is like .bread without yeast — he never rises.

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