Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1663, 20 March 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

Ah en Ui.imastie. society belled, after a rocent introduction to an emotional I actress, began to ejnsh as follower. " My dear -Miss Siddbnv, how you; must adore your art. You seem perfecMy wrapped up m it. 1 love-to. see' you gave upwards m that soulful way of your* when you come to :jjarttculftrly emotsonal passages* Are you seeking 'inspiration, when you look like that?" Emotional actress: 1" Oh; no? J am just counting the •receipts iii the giillerv." Ao old soildier has just bad a bullet extracted from his neck (says the Scotsman) which h art lain there for; 31 years. .His uainc* is John Park. : Iri ; "Tßs3 he enlisted m tke 42nd "Highlanders, and went out to the Crimea with, the legiment m 1854; when engaged m storming the heights of . A.I ma m the month of Set eniber he recived' a shot m the neck. He ■was sent to the hospital at Scutari, where several efforts the Army .doctors to remove the bullet proved ineffectual. Park, ..notwithstanding,, rejoined his regiment m the followng December, and- did duty all through $ie; rest of thu campaign. He came Home wilh the 42, and, m 1858 puch.ased his discharge. He then settled down m Edinburgh, where he has since been workiug as a a shoemaker. The bullet annoyed him occasionally, but never to such an extent as to lay him aside from work. He was, however, advised by his friends to go to the Edinburgh Infirmary, and there it was successfully /extracted by Dr Miller. The man is progressing iavorably. . ' _ A bunk teller, named Alexander .'Lawrence, who some seven years ago yrafi m the Bank of New Zealand' at Ajiukland, wi'ifes, the". .""Melbourne correspondent of an exchange .is. undf>r arrest for embezzlement of £9,000 of the funds of the City of Melbourne Bankjin which he was employed. He lias confessed his guilt, ffe began about two years ago, at first; he says * by seeing with what ease a mistake b,e made could be kept from discovery. He stole the mntila ted notes wh ich were withdrawn from circulation, and destroy el the vouchers giving thenumher and \alue of the.se .notes, from which v.oucbei'3 -tlie record of the notes was maintained. Thus he puts the mutilated notes into circulation again. As his stealings increased he falsified the entries concerning those withdrawn after an examining director of the bank hud passed them. Jn October lt»st ho was discharharged, as a .£IOO not, was found, .secreted m one of his drawers ; but he did not go away from Melbourne, apparently for the reasonthar he had, #ot rid of the whole 49,000 he had stolen m unsuccessful mining speculations. Banks, it is apparent, can thu« be robbed m a variety; of ways. The clumsy method i* to get a rusty revolver and present it at tbe bank manager on the chance of ; hi* being a coward The neater method is. -to falsify entries and trust te the '.'carlesssess \of tuditors nnd accountants. The result, however, be the method clumsy or neat, appears to be mn eh the «arae m the end. j