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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 127, 31 May 1877, Page 2

Yesterday's Post says:— A young larrikin received s wholesome lesson at the Theatre last night. It appears that he went into Mr Urwin's hotel and grossly insulted a }oung lady who is employed as a barmaid there, and she told her father, who subsequently met the larrikin at the Theatre, and led him through a crowd of laughing spectators to the bar of the hotel, where he was compelled to offer a most humble and abject apology to the lady whom he bad insulted. It is fortunate for the youth that no policeman was'in sight when he committed the offence, or he would probably have found himself in the lock-up. On this occasion we refrain from publishing his name, in the hope that he will take this as a warning. About one o'clock yesterday morning a sailor belonging to the ship Ben Ledi named James Clark got a knife and " ran a muck " through the vessel. He came across another sailor named Thomas Marsh, whom he stabbed in the thigh, and the man was seriously injured. Marsh received medical assistance, and Clark was handed over to the police. — Post. New Plymouth is a quiet little place, and charmingly bucolic. The other day, reports the local organ, as some twenty nude gentlemen were disporting in the translucent waves, some wicked wag locked the door of the bathing house in which their clothes were placed and took away the key, When their ganjbols were ended they were disr comfited to find that they were shut out in the cold. At last, by an acrobatic manoeuvre, access was gained to the building by the fracture of a jalousy, and the necessary garments obtained. The club has given an order for duplicate keys. A punedin exchange bloodthirstily remarks that the way in. which these great magnates apologise to each other is .delightful. "What; all this way and no fight]" was the remark of the seconds to the French duellist when an apology came off on the ground. There is a humility about the apology of Redwood and a general smT : ness about Robinson's reply that pleases us. These Police Courts are such nasty places. | The owners of the barque Catalpa, that recently rescued the convicts from Western Australia, in a fit of fanatic admiration of the successful enterprise of their servants, have presented the vessel as she stood, with her whaling inventory, to the three men who commanded the expedition, and made a handsome present to Hathaway, Chief of Police, the originator and superintendent of the scheme.