ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 255, 27 December 1878, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

t (Collated from our Exchanges.) We have received a poem by '-Ophelia, , idch places ns in a rather embarrassing pition. " Ophelia " says, " Kiss no one |t me, darling, kiss no one but me; and row, as I Jive, I'll kiss no one but thee. , ' iis proposition '\i' fair enough, certainty' twe have never seen " Ophelia." Her •es-'a.re not accompanied ..by her photograph, as a guarantee of good faith. , She may har-e red hair, a celestial nose, and * poor teetfo. Besides, we ate married, and our wife »wotdd probably not giyq her consent to*such an arrangement. "Ophelia , ' had better apply elsewhere. . if'i Detective Farrell has at last found sohiething more congenial to do, and nioje in ■consonance with the office of a detective) than that of storing the mind with trifling ' ■ incidents and minor breaches of office discipline for future reference and repetiLast night, he succeeded in making ' * one of the cleverest arrests in the records i. •i of crime in this colony. Information havering been given to the police that a few :1 flowers had been stolen from a garden on the Terrace, this active officer of the De\*tective Department, disguising hiuiself in ; -jj sheep's clothing, arrested a couple of it errant lambs, in the shape of two small i'girls, and despite the entreaties of friends f and relations, dragged the dastardly pair I. of female ruffians to the lock-up and cast ■J? them into a cell, fearful, that if extreme ) measures were not taken these desperate ? thieves might possibly charter or steal a -, steamer and reach some port where extra- *' dition treaties are not known. . Detective > Farrell deserves the thanks of the " count- - less thousands of the men and the women '\; -and the little children of this great country," ~j a handsome reward and immediate promo- %. tion for this, one of the cleverest captures / ,of the day. In the interests of. the public, - '.and for the security of numerous flower '~ gardens, we demand this on behalf of De- : - *ective Farrell, and we insist on the imrae- •' diate dismissal of the sergeant who so un- ' worthily fulfils his office by taking upon himself, "on his own responsibility," the liberation of two such desperadoes. It is .' possible by this they may have succeeded -in reaching Kaiwarra, the Hutt, or the ' Fvjis, and their re-arrest become a' work L^-of years, and occasion the expenditure of I thousands. Thus, an incompijteniT sergeant I "may. frustrate the well directed efforts of a I -detective officer to nip crimfe, like children in the bud ? and 'set at it h&d taken three and arrest. displayed all requests has public a pa n for on harand — as his be the banks of to is