QUEENSLAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1861, 7 June 1888, Page 2

QUEENSLAND.

Brisbane, Jane 6. Abraham Street, confidential clerk to Mason, Barnett, and Co., a well-known drapery firm, who was arrested for embezzlement, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. His defalcations amount 'to and Jje ha? mine c 1 his late employers,

A pitiful oasa of filial ingratitude andonjelty was brought under the notice of the Footsoray Bench (saya the " Argua " of the 29th inst.), when Maty Lynoh waa oharged with vagrancy. The poor little creature, who had seen het 80th year, as she eat m the court waa a pia« ture of helplessness and misery. Sergeant Rutledge [stated that she had been found wandering aimlessly about some old quarrieß. She was quite childish, and could not be left alone. She had married sons and daughters living m different suburbs around Melbourne; • but not one would trouble about her! Qnej daughter, "however,' had g<Jne to the troubw of f ecbmmanding that her mother should receive a sentenoe of 12 months' imprisonment fdr vagranoy although the poor old woman, the sergeant said, vtes very respectable and well oonduoted. ' The serßeint;added fbat Bhe tiad pooovering for hej[- feet, and that her'qlothl ing generally was insuffioient. She wa>. sentenoed to sis months' : imprisonment, 'fn o{4er that she mi^bt bo properly oarea |<?f," '