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Dunstan Times, Issue 763, 1 December 1876, Page 2

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Tho North Otago Times says“ Gre complaints have reached us from the oxl bitors of hnttcr and cheese at the late Sho hold lately. One exhibitor informs us thi when he went into the shed set apart f the dairy produce, in order to remove 1 exhibits, he found a pack of hungry mi standing at tho table, on which tho e hibits were displayed, devouring butte bread, and cheese in a manner strongly su gestive of a pack of wolves devouring horse ;or a lot of street arabs who, havi gone a day without food, were suddenly a lowed to enter a confectioner’s shop, ai take whatever they pleased. The gent man referred to expostulated with the me and endeavored to find his butter; hi alas ! he was doomed to disappointmei for not only had the whole of it been tak away (some I2lbs) but even tho crock ai towels were missing. He now desires us state that if the thief will return the cro and towels to tho Secretary of tho Assoc tion, he will receive a very handsome : ward.”

A silly oversight has been committed in regard to the new Debtors and Creditors Act. No copies of the Act reached Dunedin until three or four days ago, when it was discovered, for the first time, that it came into operation on the Ist of November. Tho profession and the public not having been previously aware of this fact, several statements of insolvency had been filed and meetings of creditors held under the Act of 1875, all of which proceedings will have to bo gone through afresh, thus entailing both expense and annoyance te the parties concerned. Why the commencement of the Act could not have been postponed until a date which would have given ample time for it to be printed and distributed throughout the Colony is one of the legislative conundrums which the General Assembly seems to delight in propounding. In addition to the inconvenience already mentioned, there is the further one that no rules have yet been framed under the new Act.—Dunedin Evening Star. It is a well-known feet the Melbourne Herald) that most of the persons employed in the banks of this Colony who have within the last few years been convicted of stealing moneys belonging to the banks have been brought to ruin by betting on race horses and gambling in other ways. The various hanks have begun to recognise the danger of allowing their employes to gamble, and seem determined to prohibit it as far as may he practicable. It is stated that the other day a dialogue, of which the following is the substance, took place between the manager of one of tho hanks in this city and one of tho clerks :—Manager : “Is it true that you have won LSOU by betting on Nemesis?” Clerk: “It is.” Manager : “Then you have your choice of two courses ; furnish to mo immediately an account of your debts and your assets, or resign your position here.” The clerk chose the alternative first indicated, and the account showed a balance in his favor of LSOO. Tho manager then addressed him thus : “You must now lodge this LSOO to your credit; and if it is again discovered that you gamble in any shape or form, you will render yourself liable to immediate dismissal.” The clerk lodged the LSOO to his credit, as required, and it is to be hoped will also carry out the final salutary injunction of his manager. Sir William Stawcll generally hits the right nail Upon the head (says tho Melbourne Punch), and he did so the other day in summing up the libel action Broadbent v. Small, when the Chief Justice is reported to have said that “ Public men and public measures were public property, and it was the privilege of the public to discuss those men and measures, as it was termed, without actual malice. This was a privilege which they all must cherish. No doubt these criticisms wore occasionally not pleasant. Courts of justice came in occasionally tor attack or censure- whether justly or unjustly it was not necessary for him to say. Judges were censured, and even learned counsel did not escape. Perhaps when those attacks were first read in the morning, they were not very agreeable. If they were deserved, why they mnst be borne ; if they were undeserved they could do no harm, and they probably served to amuse some people. Unless public criticism was allowed on public men and public measures, the community would lapse into a condition which would be exceedingly irksome to the public generally. If discussions woio not allowed, why the community would be in a state of perfect slavery.” This is the language of common senso and of sage experience. And none but fools and knaves stand in dread of honest criticism, of just censure, and of fearless satire.

Smith is a duellist. As ho is passing along tho street, a man tumbles out of a fifth storey window, and landing in a mudpuddle smashes his skull to bits and splashes Smith from Head to foot with mud. “ Infernal coward 3” growls Smith ;“ ho took that way of doing it so that I couldn’t call him to account !”

A man killed another man’s dog. The son of the man whose dog was killed, therefore, proceeded to whip the man who killed tho dog of the man he was the son of. Tho man who was the son of the man whose dog was killed was arrested by the man who was assaulted by the son of the man whose dog the man assaulted aud killed.