“ There’s many a slip,” etc. A telegram was received in Wellington on Wednesday night that James Dawson, chief accountant for the New Zealand Insurance Company at Dunedin, had disappeared, taking with him £SOO of the Company’s funds. Detective Campbell boarded the ship Canterbury, about to sail for Boston, and found a clean shaved man in a bunk, whom he accused of being Dawson. Eventually the man admitted his identity, and was taken ashore. He had secured a saloon passage for £SO, and on him was found a draft bn the Bank of California for 480 dollars, and £SO in gold. But for an accident to her wheel, the ship would have sailed some hours before the police heard anything about the affair.
A coloured boy, called as a ■witness before a court martial, was asked by the judge advocate if be understood what an oath was. The witness replied, “ Yas, sail ! I x’eckon I does. I’ze been waitin’ at tlxe officers’ mess most six months.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 12, 17 June 1893, Page 12
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165Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 12, 17 June 1893, Page 12
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