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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1447, 5 September 1885, Page 3

The Btory of a cunningly devised robbery reaches us from Ormondville. A young man called at a house and told the occupier whose husband was absent, that a person was lying at a certain place m the bush with a broken leg, and would she come and help to carry him to the settlement. Sho replied that she did not care to leave her house to look after itself,, and recommended him to goto a neighbour living about t'wohundred yards off, the young man started to go there, and m due course, returned, saying he got the neighbour to help him on thn condition that she (the woman to whom ho was speaking) would go and keep company with the wife during his absence. The good woman at once started off, and the young man made tracks for the scene of the accident. But when the woman reached her neighbours she learnt that no young man bad called there, wlierrupon she hastened batik to her home to find it rifled of its contents. — Napier Telegraph. The question as to whether cattle can, or cannot; be impounded between sunset and sunrise, has been before the Oaman: Borough Council. The local Mail aftor dealing with the law on the matter snys :— "Those of the public who, undor the belief that their cattle could not be impounded at night timo, have turned them upon the streets to graze, should take a note of the fact that they are mistaken upon the subjnet and that not only may cattle be impounded at night, but the penalties and costs they have to pay are heavier than for cattle impounded during the day time."