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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 2 November 1874, Page 3

The Sydney Morning Herald would appear to keep a record of crimes committed, the authors of which have been undiscovered. There are, said the Herald, " nearly as many crimes undiscovered as there are bad criminals undetected and unpunished." After giving a record of a few of these in various parts of the world, New Zealand criminality came in for a share of attention, our contemporary says, "a man named Torkey was murdered at Miller'B Flat, in Otago. A. man known as Job Johnstone was arrested and tried for.the murder. Strenuous attempts were made by the New Zealand police to procure a conviction, but Johnstone proved conclusively that he was acting a3 a juryman at a coroner's inquest 100 miles away at the time the murder was com* mitted. Poor Yorkey's murderer has never been found, and Johnstone would have been hanged for the crime if he had not had the money to pay the expenses of witnesses who were able to prove an alibi, —i. German named "Charlie" was found dead ia Highstreet, Dunedin, his brains beaten out with a rail, wrenched from a fence close by; murderer or murders unknown —The revolting murders of Sullivan and his gang are too well remembered to require entering into the ghastly details.. jjullivau and his accomplices are said to have murdered at leist thirty humin beings." The moral of the story is that, '' atrocious criminals must meet us face to face every day—in the street, in the omnibus, in the inn, in the church, and in the chapel. We may any day breakfast with a thief, dine with a swindler, sup with a robber, or dose with a murderer in 'a railway carriage; and, if the benign intentions of the gentle Henry are carried out, we may soou have the pleasure of making the acquaintance of our greit bushhero, Mr P. Gardiner, or may obtain an introduction to the most distinguished of the New Zealand murderers, Mr Sullivan; or may any day be face to face with any one of the ruffians who will be let loose upon us in a few days."

They tell me that the prospects of a popular caterer for public entertaiument were terribly obscured the other day. He had engaged two most eminent artistes. Said one, "Xouhava , given Madam six lines in ths advertise- ' meut3, and you have only given mefour. Unless I havo the same as Madame , I won't appear." Being a cautious man, he at once repaired to Madame -— He explained the difficulty, and hoped Madame would not object to his gratifying Mademoiselle. "But," said Madame, "I do object; and what is more, if Mademoiselle is giveu six lines, I won't play." Here was a difficulty. At length diplomatic aid was invoked. The German consul contested to visit Mademoiselle; For a longtime she was obdurate. At length the consul slyly suggested, "Well, really, I think you might give way to a lady so .much older than your* sell." He toucbod the right spring. "dha can have, ou those grounds," siid Mademoiselle,. " as many hues as she lib's.—, ia, Aiwtyalcwian.