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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 899, 12 May 1877, Page 3

The Height of Meanness. —Under this rather suggestive heading the South Canterbury Times complains of a copy of that paper having been stolen under circumstances winch arc thus described : " Some unprincipled person abstracted the fheet of our last, eveunift'B is3iio, placed outside Lliib oihee for Hie good of the public. We trust that, it served him instead of his tea to appease his appetite, otherwise that he will return it in the same condition as when he unwisely abstracted it." A Swimming Feat. —A fisherman who has for some time past been working at Wyeliffe Bay had occasion to make an urgent visit to Port Chalmers with his mate. On arriving at Portobcllo they could find no boat. Not to be beaten, one of the men stripped, made his clothes into a bundle, fastened it round his head, and then actually swam across the channel to Innes's jetty, took a black boat moored there, pulled 'across, picked up Ids mate, and both came over to Port Chalmers. All this took place during the early hours of the morning, which was both cold and stormy, and■ tonstifut'efc a feat of swimming of no mean order.