"HERE IN COOL GROT AND MOSS-Y CELL."

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 227, 17 January 1885, Page 4

"HERE IN COOL GROT AND MOSS-Y CELL."

From. Launceston conies the following, which, from the facb that the Examiner is sent to us with the par carefully marked, we suppose refers to our old and dearlybeloved young friend David Moss, Esq. , who so gracefully " exited " a few years ago, the time, in fact, which is remembered yet as "Resolution's or Moss' year" by all old sports around Auckland. He gained himself then (that is, our downy young friend David Moss did; we ain't sayin' nothin' about any other D. Moss, and if this ain't the " covey " we humbly beg his pardon) an unenviable notoriety by plunging recklessly on Eesolution till he ' ' stiffened " him both for himself and a confiding public ; and then when the honest gentlemen who were so considerate as to write down all his wagers of odds on the horse in their little books with, their little metal pencils, called upon him next day for the " gance." Lo !he was nan est inventus, which, if our readers don't understand Maori, means he wasn't there. A confiding little bloke named named James K. Poole (perhaps somebody will remember the coon, or at least his name) made a discovery, and, from information received, skipped scross to Stokes' Point, and found David languidly discussing aB. and S. He got his money, we believe ; anyhow, it's a way he had in those days, though he doesn't want any now, and never bothers his clients to "part" till he asks 'em. But then MiDavid Moss found this climate too cool, and sailed for Fiji, through a strange lapse of memory, forgetting to inform the other gents, as to his projected departure. - Funny, wasn't it ? "We now hear of him as we said above thusly : —

Alleged False Pbeten t ees.— David (not. 2fatlian as erroneously stated) Moss was ciiavged at, the instance of Mr II J. Dean with havinsr obtained from him the sum of £66 IQ3 by false pretences. Mr Superintendent Coulter asked the Bench for a remand, which was granted until Friday next, the Police Magistrate saving that he hoped that the defendant would be brought up earlier if possible. The defendant asked the Magistrate whether he would not put the superintendent in the box in order to prove that he (defendant) had sent him a telegram saying that he was coming up to Launceston by the express train. The Police Magistrate sdd that he was not charged with absconding, but with obtaining money by false pretences. The defendant applied * for" bail, but tlie Magistrate refused to grant it. Subsequent, however, to the remand of Moss, Mr G-. T. Collins, on behalf of the defendant, applied for bail, and Mr W. Croft for the prosecutor offered no objection to substantial ba.il. The Police Magisfr-.'e, therefore, granted bail, the defendant in £50 and one surety — Mr Huston, of the Criterion Hotel— in £50.