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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 143, 29 May 1884, Page 2

The Trustees in the estate of the late Edward Costley paid over to the charities mentioned in the will, £7,000 each, making a total of £19,000. Further dividends will be made very shortly of £35,000, each charity getting an additional £5,000. His Mark.—The Junior Liberal Association of Sheffield once went on a picnic to Conisbro’ Castle. After listening to some learned talk on the history of the castle, the young politicians dispersed for recreation. One party proceeded to the venerable keep, and there, after close inspection, a brilliant discovery was made. In the interior of the keep some detached fragments from its walls were lying about, and on one of these fallen stones a gentleman pointed out, with much complacency, certain chisel marks made, he affirmed, in very ancient times. No one could interpret the hieroglyphics, not even their learned discoverer. Just when the interest was at its heighest, their lounged up a newspaper reporter to whom the curious marks wore triumphanty exhibited. After looking at them narrowly, he rather dryly expressed a doubt as to whether Norman stonemasons were acquainted with shorthand. The company looked from one to another inquiringly. What did the new-comer men by his inconsequent remark ? Merely that the hieroglyphics were shorthand writing for “ Jerry Piper, Conisbro’, 1850.”