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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3138, 10 March 1879, Page 4

Filtebs in Cistebns—Mr F. DeChamont, of the Army Medical School, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, writes to the Standard, stating that the placing of filters in cisterns is a very undesirable and even dangerous^ plan of filtration, especially with a charcoal filter. Experiments made at Netley have shown that water left in contact with the filtering medium (if that medium be charcoal) is certain to take up organic matter from it, sometimes becoming more impure than before. It also places the filter at a disadvantage, by depriving it of any access of air. A filter attached to a cistern outside is in a different position ; for there the water merely passes through the medium, which can be got at easily and cleaned or renewed.

A Mb Godfrey, a shareholder in the Jersey, Joint Stock Bank, which suspended payment some time ago, has been sued for payment of £320 for calls made upon him under the liquidation at the rate of £40 per share. He pleaded that he had been victimised by the Directors falsely representing the bank to be flo'arishing (it was paying 10 per cent.); whilst subsequent investigation showed that it had been hopelessly insolvent for some years. On the ground of its alleged prosperity, the Directors sold shares to the defendant at a premium of 60 per cent., and ten months afterwards the Bank collapsed. The Court found that fraud had been clearly proved, and gave judgment for the defendant.

Says the Australasian:—Mention was made about a fortnight ago of a grocer's assistant having absconded from Carlton after embezzling a considerable sum of money from his employer. It was deemed inadvisable then to publish the names of the persons concerned, but as the fugitive has since Been arrested these and other particulars may now be given. The accused is a sanctimonious individual, giving the name of Edward Hanley Pass, but it has been ascertained that bis real name is Edward Hanley. It appears that he came out from England recently, and obtained employment from Mr Adamson, grocer, Brunswick street, Fitzroy. Passing himself off as an " unco quid " young man, he managed to ingratiate himself into the confidence and esteem of his employer. He became a member of a Wesleyan church to which Mr Adamson belongs, took charge of a class in the Sunday school, and appeared to have, unbounded zeal for the cause of religion* and Mr Adamson entrusted him with the management of a branch establishment of. his business in Queensberry street, Carlton. Outward appearances are, however, sometimes deceptive, and Hanley's a<^. mirers were much shocked when it; trs n*. spired one day that he had disappear e d, and that there was a deficiency of n/ ja riy £200 in his accounts. He departed without bidding his friends " good-hy'j," but he left a note for his master stating that lie would still contir ae his subscriptions to the church, a^ expressing a hope that x 6 '¥ r » -<Mon) and the members of the chur^ wou ia remember him in their Pray^ rg , The case was placed in the ■^nds of Detectives Edelsten and Kennedy, who, in the course of their inuqiries, ascertained that the fellow had been making himself conspicuous again in a church at Albury. A warrant for his arrest was forwarded thither, and a telegram was received on Saturday intimating that his arrest had been effected.

Feom a remote district in New Zealand there cometh to me a wail and a proposal. There are, says my correspondent, a few thousand people (in New Zealand) who would have greatly liked an invitation, on the usual terms of transport, to the Embassy banqnet, and who exclaim with Mr Patterson, " Why should we deprived ? " &c. These thousands greatly admire the noble career of Mr Berry. .They are, fortunately, forgiving persons. They will pardon the previous oversight if arrangements are made for their free passage to Melbourne (return tickets) to welcome Mr B. at a fish dinner on his reappearance. " I assure you," says my co-res-pondent, " that fully 5000 tickets will go oiF easily. There is, however, something suspicious in the postscript—"Let the affair," it is suggested, "come off in the Cup week!"— &g\ea.