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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 50, 18 July 1890, Page 3

Two men were drinking in the bar of an hotel recently in Melbourne, and one of them produced a uugget of gold, which he laid down on the bar. One of the men John Allsopp, is alleged to have taken it up and swallowed it. When charged with this he said he thought it was only a bean. William Clegg, the owner of the nugget, gave Allsopp in charge, and he was lodged in the King-street watch-house on a charge of stealing a nugget of gold weighing hall-an-ounce, and valued at £2 15s. ■ Buch rank: perjury was committed in a recent proceeding before him that .the c'iruri-r of Melbourne (Dr Y<ml)felt •uinpoiloil tu aay: ''He w«s, iiuwuvei, hecomtng accustom* d u> liars, and con sidered- that it was really pitiful to see "the way iii which people deliberately aid tht-mselvesy out to tell lies when there wis-iiu cause fur it. He Imd never imt a proper liar, or one who laid himseif »ui to be ouu, uuiii ho mo i hem coining to the corou r's curt alid telling the most awful lies immediately alter taking a most solemn oath to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. People cheerfully took an oath to speak the truth, and then made statements that were simply abhorrent. He believed that what he had stated