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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 71, 19 July 1873, Page 3

A Quaker Printer’s Proverbs. — Never sendest thou an article for publication without giving the editor thy name, for thy name oftentimes secures publication. Never do thou loaf about a printing office, ask questions, or knock down type, or the boys will love you, like as they do shade trees —when thou leaveth. Thou should never read the copy on the printer’s case, or the composer thereof may knock thee down. Never inquire thou of the editor for news, for behold it is his business at the appointed time to give it thee without asking. It is not right that thou shouldst ask him who is the author of an article, for it is his duty to keep such things unto himself. When thou dost enter his office, take heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at what may be lying open and concerneth thee not, for it is not meet in the sight of good breeding. Neither examine thou the proof-sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye that thou mayest understand.

Under the heading “ Caution to Billiard Markers,” the following letter appeared in a late issue of the Nelson Examiner . —“ Sir, — A. case came before the Bench of Magistrates on Wednesday last, in which Messrs. G. Harper and H. V. Phillips were sued by C. Percival for fees for fifty-two games of billiards, played by the defendants on the 13th February last, at the table W>f the Nelson Hotel, where the plaintiff acted for the day as marker, in the absence of Baker, who rents the table from the landlord. Mr. Acton Adams, who appeared for the defendants, claimed a nonsuit, on the ground that no marker could recover fees unless he had in his possession an authority in writing from the person who holds the license. The Bench took this view of the case, and I, who was the plaintiff, lost my just, if not legal, due, besides being saddled with costs. After this decision, markers at billiard tables would do well to know their customers, and not trust players who are likely to take advantage of a quibble to rob them of their just dues.—l am, Ac., C. Percival.”