findings and keepings.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1137, 2 September 1882, Page 2

findings and keepings.

1 A <u>d O.M.H.Ixu.Uv f«ur with perron, not ( g w ; (ull I tiupvm, ••nirtUiiK.u hu •• u 1 , phrase.' hiEnglish,*ti 1B ImpreXn may i>e described ae that of a rigid to keen ■ any a. tide that obo finds, I t T w ‘ll that i the idea should be dispelled, anti fimlera or pickers-np of lo»t or mislaid property warned ' ™lu l aOIW uTu ICe of , ml “'4’propmtion. The penalties which attach to such cases a pp] v 1 equally to others of a cignate kind I »V** e ’ £ “'*l ,,< ”* ■ A Loh tub Jad l unilirrhn 1' n.h,ial.c, iq.terw«nti>, kn'tWinn’ bliu-iS’tiio’hwtfe'r, hh Iteips "It; l lt ;« hud.}* ■ ! lf ’’l 0 "', 4 ““Mentally drop, J i bank note on the door ; any one picking it up with intent to keep It. and keeping it cordingly, either knowing the owner, or l m ‘ ■ hevnq; that he can be fJnorl. i„ guilty of TCKniy. J he Mine JawappliuAto n f’r.lnlrJv*'»

who appropriates anything left accidental!; in his cab. A person receives a sovereign given him by mistake for a shilling, and see ing what it is, keeps it ; he is guilty o felony. A man having to receive monej from a bank, produces a cheque or warrani for the amount ; the clerk, mistakingly re ferr.’ng to another gives him s larger sum ; the recipient is guilty of felony as to the excess, A man buys, or has sent him for repair, a bureau containing money, which he keeps ; he is guilty of felony. If these examples aro remembered, and dishonest folk made awaro that ‘ findings ’ are uot * havings,’ but that, if the owner of a lost or dropped article be known, or can by reasonable inquiry be found, its wrongful appropriation may be visited by penal servitude, we may have fewer advertisements for lost, and perhaps more for found, property. In any event, there would be fewer sticks, cloaks, umbrellas, and parcels stolen — whether dropped in the street, or left behind in a cab, or a cloak-room.—Tauranga Guardian,