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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3833, 11 April 1881, Page 2

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(Peb Pbess Association.) ' / ■ This day. The following sentences were passed on prisoners pleading guilty:—Jas. Mack, larceny, two years ; Harry Potter, larceny, two years; Harry Pbtter,- larceny, 5 two I, years; Wm, Everest, Borough Clerk, Hampten, embezzlement, two years. ; The £ case of Paget, the Post Office clerk,' will ' occupy the whole day. Before commencing proceedings at the R.M.. Court to-day, Mr Simpson, addressing the Bar,- intimated his intention to commit for contempt any practitioner guilty of interrupting or delaying the Court as had been done lately.

The latest story from the Empire City „ (remarks the Waikato Mail) is about our friend the Commissioner of Annuities. The Commissioner dropped in one day . ,; upon one of his clerks, who was perohed ou a very lofty stool, with head bowed over a long column of figures, and apparently absorbed in mournful reverie. - ,-~- But litfcle work had done lie ' ' la the office there that day, Save some sketches light and funny; > - . And a voucher for his pay, , ■;.■.. , ,■, . Just to while the time away. 80 deep was the meditation of thab clerk p that he noticed not the coming of the * dreaded chief. There was a long silence, • which was broken by the Commissioner) who said, in answer to an inquiring stare from the absent-minded clerk, "I'm Luckie." "I wish to goodness I was," replied the young Tite Barnacle; : "Ire ' drawn the favourite, and that wretch North has bolted to California with the entire sweep." The Success has obtained anoth£il6oz cake of pure gold. Two hundred porkers from the Waimate Plains were driven through Wanga- ■ nui in one day en route for Wellington.- :