SUSPICIOUS LOOKING

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1878, Page 3

SUSPICIOUS LOOKING

(pEK PBEfIS AOEXCY.) Napier, Tuesday. A man named Hunter, the cook on board the lighter Admiral, has mysteriously disappeared. He was last seen on Sunday morning about ono o'clock, by two constables, on the bridge at the Spit. He was then in company with a man named Perry, and they were quarrelling. Hunter was drunk. When they saw the constables they moved away, Hun- / ter threatening what he would do to / Perry. Hunter has not been seen since, but a little later on the same morning the mate of the Result steamer helped Perry to get. on board that vessel f»y the anchor chain. IJe was bleeding from a cut, and stains of blood have been traced from the bridge to the water. Perry denies £.11 knowlege of Hunter, and soys he was so drunk that he can remember nothing. The police have dragged for the body, but without success. "Wednesday. The body was washed up to # day. At an inquest subsequently held, a verdict of •' found drowned " was returned, and Perry was released of all suspicion.

I Darwin says a woman loses one tenth of her time looking for her thims ble, but fails to state that this waste of time and more too is fully made up when she goes for the rolling pin on unsteady footsteps coming through the front gate. An old Scotchman on marrying a young wife, was rallied by his friends on the inequality of their ages. " She will be will near me" he replied, " to close my een." Weel," remarked another of the party. "I've had twa wives, and they opened my een." " Ah,"eaid the fly, as it crawled a* iind tiie bottJ. r ;, •'! have passed ftatcling age, the creepiXy,*nga;>&, and now I am aud — " and there it