WHO IS THE REAL CILPRIT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 3830, 22 August 1878, Page 2

WHO IS THE REAL CILPRIT.

' The folio wjug mysterious and suggesJiveJparagWpii we c&ll sfrom Monday's Post: — " What is the true story about <*he^brindTed-g\ti^^ , weeks^ago was entered at the Customs . heW" 'as worth only ±'50. We ,£u^h,^ieslj^ tnent aud Parliament may cause a searching into the matter. A : question. pan easUyq.be put in the House -6t ' ov perhaps more fittingly 'iii'ithe Legislative Council, so -as to gather full particulars of what seems' a very" iigly 'Story/ '''We have heai'd much of salted invoices ; and the ; figures set 1 forth 'in' 'the Oblijtifal I( %|e^ siii cv's 'Financial Bfcktetnen't : showed 'indubitably how dishonestimporters have •caHised-ao-sma-11-loss- to-fche^-revenuev^rf t.he colony. 'If >a sailor smuggles a Jev .pounds of lbbacco_or a. box of cigars, and is caught, in. the. attempt, he is very ■prdpe'rly,. proceeded again'sfc* and punished: Sauce for' the gobse should b ; sa.ube,' for -the-'gafider, • an;d| this piani > master should' oh probed jfcp *^he bottom . The §tory, 'as told.- to^ us, is -that acei ■' r tain proininept an,d weaithyrciti^en^-.Qii whpm Her gracious. Majesty. has ■ con ■ feri-ed importaiit;and responsible hoiiors , 1 imported a pianjo trom Englaud, where the cost price • yras abbutj one huridfeql guineas^ 'It is further' affirmed' tth at ( t he induced a cleric -in a large business house in town, jbp makes the; entry for him on a fprm bearing, that firm's name! and causing the Value of the instrument to be stated at! [£5Q- instead of £Wo| A shar^p Custom/' JEfouse d&ceV observe^ .. ,that.the-brand of «-the~musical firm- was not; that which v implied a cheap piauo', and on investigation: the whole thing was discovered.' The firm whose form had been"used repudiated all conrf ectioir with the affair ; the clerk was relieved ■■ iof his. appointment, 'arid ; the ot'h'er'Uay sailed for Australia, so that at present ■ there is supposed to be -a v want 1 6F''evidence to connect thp real culprit ,with the- offence. ! ! Wfe. give /the ' story narrated to us. 'One fjh'mg is cleai^it cannot be permitted "to rest where ,it is, and we hope to find a question put in both Houses ot Parliament asking for i a full exposure of the Whole affair."