THE ABSCONDER O'FARREL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 13

THE ABSCONDER O'FARREL.

A iate Melbourne Police Qazette is enlivened by the following neat little thing; in the desciiptivc line of bii o m»s3 : — '■ Hujh J. Vincent O'Far.el is changed on a warrant with cm'iez/hng upwards of £9000, the money of the Victoria 1 ! Government, since October, 1870. Olfender is a native of Dublin, and speaks with the accent of that city ; thirty five to forty years of age, G r t lm or 2in high ; dark complexion, hiir, whiskes, be.ircl, and moustaclie ; wears his hair long aid thi'-k behind; ennill features, stooping shoulders, slovenly gait, imublo minner*, sliglit mixture of Hindoo blood in his veins ; dres^oj carelessly in tweed suit an 1 low crowned dirk hit; fond of do.;* a'vl sports. He was employed ns a clerk in the Or.iwu Lm'kls Di?partni ■it ' The persuii thus graphically sketclied is s ir>p is >d to be nt p-vsc it i i New Zetland, where the police are oi tie loA-^ut for him; and whither detcctive3 have come from Melbourne tj s'lr-'i fjr hi n.

Toleration in Russia — The 'G.zetta Na.\i<lnv >i »' (lacil oTjeial organ) states that at Minsk, 28 Catholic priests hay? boon impn-.o'ied and sent to Grodno, for refusing to u-se the Russian 1 uijai^j i.i iluur churches*