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Dunstan Times, Issue 798, 3 August 1877, Page 4

'Here is a wrinkle for the collector of Dog Tax, to be used when he is on the look-out for unregistered dogs. It is taken from the San Francisco Nows Letter Dog fanciers in this city are getting shy about answering advertisements for pointers, terriers, and other canine beauties. The astute poundkeeper put a card in the Chronicle stating that he wished to buy a handsome pup— Apply to C.8., No.—, Montgomery-street, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m for three days. The advertiser was at his rendezvous punctually, with his waggon and complete outfit of Mexicans and lassoos. Four hundred and seventeen dogs answered the ad- ’ vertisemcnt, that is to say, were offered for sale by their owners to the wily official. Three hundred and ninety-four of those were unregistered, immediately captured and put in durance vile. An inventive mind will ever inaugurate devices for the suppression of evils, and it is to be hoped that this plan for the extirpation of mongrel curs • may be worked long and successfully. An ingenious chevalier it Industrie has been sentenced to three months’ imprison- ■ ment for loitering about the Strand for a felonious purpose. He is well known to the police as a convicted thief, and it was stated that ho was in the habit of dressing in clerical attire and walking about with a book and an umbrella, the latter, suspended half open’from his hand, serving as a convenient receptacle for anything which his associates could contrive'to lay their hands upon. It is right that this fellow should ho prevented from canying on this species of masquerade it only on account of the unjust suspicions that might 1m directed against some excellent gentlemen who at this season of the year arc so abundant in the 'neighbourhood of Exhter Hall. The “Walkists” arc still at it, and likely “ to continue the same as it leaves them at present.” Vaughan has beaten 'Crossland in a forty-eight hours stroll, and hence the friends of the latter withdraw from their indention to back him against Weston for a longer ramble. However, there is Lsoo— money—to be walked for, and perhaps we shall see before long Weston and the above-named “peds” on the six dayshtrack at the Agricultural Hall-