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Temuka Leader, Issue 1001, 7 September 1882, Page 3

Cheating the Customs.— Three handsome volumes were recently despatched by post from Liverpool to Cincinnati, which were found to have the leaves carefully cut through the middle of the pages, leaving a good-sized square receptacle in each volume, In these holes had been placed diamonds and jewellery valued at over a thousand pounds starling. Some keen-eyed official of the New York Post Office, apparently suspecting that pearls of eloquence were not the only precious things contained in these volumes examined them with a care which led to the detection of this ingenious attempt to defraud the revenue. The books with their costly enclosures were handed over to the New York Custom House, The officials are now considering what shall be done with these gems of literature. The Good Odd Hays. —Speaking of Dunedin policemen in the early days of the colony, the author ef “From Gisborne to Melbourne,” published in the Poverty Bay Standard, says ;— * 1 don’t know, however, that these nondescript characters yclept policemen, were so great a travesty on the name of * peeler ’ in in later days, I saw them in your neighboring town oi Napier—in the ‘good old days,’ when ‘ full private Groom,’ was the embodiment and personification of ail that was terrible and majestic as a street peace-preserver. It was the peculiar feature of this accomodating official’s good nature to take a wheelbarrow with him on his beat of an evening, and to wheel the ‘ incapables ’ to the lock-up, or to their own homes if they preferred it—which, in some instances, they did not, as the matter would get wind, and Groom had tolerably comfortable quarters in his bachelor days. But it fell f s often to the lot of that now departed functionary, to be deported home in his own vehicle, in a happy state, of unconsciousness, by those who he endeavored to ‘ take into custody,’ and to the _ great joy of the various Bacchanals who joined in the fun. As in Napier, »o in Dunedin the police were a most accomodating ‘ hands all round ’ kind of people, and so heartily entered into the pastimes of the community, that none but strangers were ‘taken in and done for.’ ” Holloway’s Pills'—-Holloway's pills are, the medicine most in repute for curing the multifarious maladies which beset mankind when dry sultry weather suddenly gives place to chill.y drenching days. In fact, these Pills offer relief even if they fail of proving an absolute remedy in all disturbsnees of digestion, circulation, and nervous tone which occasionally oppress a vase portion of the population. Under the genial, purifying, and strengthening powers exerted by this excellent medicine the tongue becomes clean, the appetite improves, digestion is quickened and assimilation is rendered perfect. These Pills poseess the highly estimable property of cleansing the entire mass of blood ; which, in its renovated condition, carries purity,strength and vigour to every tissue of the body.— [Advt]

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