MOONLIGHT FLITTING.

Evening Star, Issue 4103, 21 April 1876, Page 4

MOONLIGHT FLITTING.

Between one and two o’clock of the morning of Good Friday (says the ‘ N.O. Times ’) a certain individual, who has been some months in business in Oamaru, was observed to be busily engaged in an occupation sometimes denominated shooting the moon ; packing away his lares and penat-s in an express, with a view evidently to absquatulating. There were others on the scene, apparently interested spectators, and we opine we should not err in describing them as anxious creditors. The proceedings were somewhat lively, the the better half of the Hitting party carrying on rather a warm altercation with a tradesman who wanted his books, which had been left with the view of collecting his debts. After a good deal of lively language on the part of the lady, the tradesman got his books, but only to find, that all the pages containing entries had been torn out, and that all that was left was blank paper and the covers. By the five o’clock coach the party in whom ail this interest was taken left for Dunedin, but paid that city but a short visit, having been brought back again nolens volens to Oamaru to answer to a charge of embezzlement. The person alluded to is Edward Bickerton, who, on Monday, was remanded to Oamaru, to answer a charge of embezzlement.