A Petty Theft.
There is no measuring the meanness of some thieves, as the following will show: — A theft was committed at the Immigration Barracks some time after the closing of the St. John's Sunday School, on Sunday last It is the custom of the school to collect pence from the children for the library fund, in a handsome and rateable totara box presented to the school for the purpose by* a friend. On - Monday morning this box was bronght to the parsonage by a person who reported that it had been found under a culvert near the Barracks. To obtain the bo* the thief must have forced the lock of the library room, while the box itself had evidently caused much difficulty, as it had been very roughly handled and considerably damaged. As it had been opened I only a few days before by the Curate, who took from it a refutable sum, the thief's labour would be rewarded by the acquisition of a very trifling »urn, jprolv ably under one shilling.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 2
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173A Petty Theft. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 2
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