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Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1661, 19 August 1873, Page 3

Embezzlement. —J. Delaney, telegraph operator at the Waiau, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £3 18s. the property of the Government, ■ ■ .

Lakbisinism AT Fioton.—At Picton Police Court on August Llth, A. Campbell, T. Foster, 0. Neal J. Dry, J. Clemens, and 0. Clemens six lads, the eldest of whom (says the Press) was not more than 13 years of age, were charged with wilfully destroying one.lamp of. the value of £3, the property of the Provincial Government. Defendants . were fined £3 25., the amount of the damage, with £113s. costs. The amounts of the fines and costs were paid, and the youths liberated.

Weighing the Bab*.—The humorous publications make a good deal of capital out of the exigeanae of the modern domestic servant. Let me give an instance in real life. A young married lady was in treaty with a nursemaid at a Bourke-otroet registry office, and the'negotiation promis.ed to eventuate successfully. The future nurse, hqwever, inquired, "What is the weight of your baby ?" The "mother couldn't answer Batiafaptprily. She bad omitted to weigh the baby; and of course' no nurse who respected herself could overlook to preposterous, ap omission,—-" JfUgles" in the Australasian, Tito Kowabjj,--This eWef. bag requested the authorltiei to keep Mr. Worgan from troubling hint about hit land, and. to keep all other, European

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