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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 24, 10 January 1877, Page 3

Ari unregistered letter was recently received at Liverpool m a very thin cover bearing an almost illegible address, and was delivered to a firm to whom it was supposed to be directed. On being opened, the letter and its enclosures, five £100 notes, were found to be intended for another firm, to whom they were eventually delivered. According to the last report of the Post-master-General m London, the Post Office lias been made the vehicle for conveying such articles as silkworms and gentles ; flowers, fruit, and vegetables ; various kinds of game ; weai'ing apparel j models of metal fittings and toys ; leeches, snails, eggs, six white mice, a sparrow, two snakes, a crayfish, and a dog. Several of these being prohibited articles, were sent to the Beturned Letter Office. The dog was posted at the Lom-bard-street Office, and, having fallen into the bag affixed to the letter box, was not discovered until the contents were turned out at St. Martin's-le-G-rand. Two amusing anecdotes are related of the Prince of Wales by the Edinburgh correspondent of the " Otago Daily Times," the events having happened during the deerstalking expeditions while he was the Duke of Sutherland's guest at Dunrobin. In the first instance the Prince was passing through the forest, when he came near the house of a crofter, who ran up to him, saluted him as " darling Prince," and insisted on his coming m to see the wife and children. As soon as the Prince entered the house the man produced the inevitable whiskey bottle, and poured out a glass for the Prince, who merely tasted it. The crofter was by no means satisfied with this, and strenuously pressed his Royal Highness to finish the glass, meeting a royal remark -that it was strong, with the rejoinder—" Oh, yes, she'll be strong, and she'll be good too ; no like yon nasty weak stuff you'll be getting m. the South." Of course, after this the Prince had to take a good dram, after which he was permitted to depart, bearing with him the exuberant blessings of the crofter and his wife. Th© second instance is to the effect that the Prince gave a cigar to an old man while out deerstalking. The recipient, not knowing what a cigar was, eat part of it, but flung the rest away m disgust, exclaiming — " She'll no like ta French meat at all 1"