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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 266, 7 December 1876, Page 4

A butcher named Charles Parsons residing in Cloth Fair has be^n summoned to the London Guildhall by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals for cutting off a cat's tail. 1$ was proved that the defeo dan', feeiiog annoyed because the animal came into his house and chased his rabbits, caught it, sliced away its tail to the stump, and then threw it out of the window. He was sentenced to one moDth's imprisonment, with hard labor. A small fine was inflicted upon Joshua Pearson, wbo was a member of a large and somewhat disorderly crowd which assembled for tbe purpose of mobbing. Parsons. The Wairarappi JVeios Letter thus calculates what the recent rise of wool implies; — "The rise tliat has taken place is equal to a least 3 1 per pound. L*st year's clip coosisted of 163,000 bales, ot 337 lbs each. There is no reason to believe that the rise will not be maintained. Therefore taking last year's clip as the quantity (though the present is promising lo be larger) we find that th« colony gains £4 3a 3 . p-r hal *, or £731,250 for the year's clip. not a little Bum to gain. Again, if we take tbe British and American clips, with the importations which pa e s through England, we have nearly 2,000,000 of bales, whi<ih would yit-1 I an increase of ov«r £8,000,000. To ihis have to be added the cups of Germany, France, and Russia, whioh would raise the amount lo about £12,000 000. Thi, would represent the difference between the past and the present year." Ic is a well-known fact (remarks the Melbourne Heiald) that most of the persons employed in the batiks of this colony who have wiihin the last few years being convicted of stealiug moneys belonging to the banks have been brought to ruin by betting on horse races aud gambling io other way.-. Tho various banks have begun to recognise the danger of allowing their employes to gamble, anil eeem determined to prohibit it as far us may be practicable, lt u stated that the other day a dialogue, of which tlnfollowitg is the substance, took placn between the manager of one of the banks in this city and one of the cleiks : — M«oa_er : " Is it true that you have won £500 by beitiiu on Nemesis ? " Clerk : "It is." Manager ; ■' Then you have your choice of two courses ; furnish to me immediately an account of your debts aud your assets, or resign your position hare. 1 ' The clerk chosa the alternative first indicate), and the account shewed a balance in his favor of £500. The manager addressed him thus : " You must now lodge this £500 to your credit i and if it ia again discovered that you bet or gamble in .any shape or form, you will render

yourself liable to immediate dismissal." The clerk lodged the £500 to bis credit as required, and it is to be hoped will also carry out the fioal salutary injunction of his manager.